On Mar 3, 2005, at 15:31, Martina Oefelein wrote:
Hi Bob:
Very few people care that undocumented modules don't work correctly. You have to look pretty hard to even notice their existence in the first place. I've never heard of a broken undocumented standard library module becoming a deal-breaker for someone new to Python.
Looking at the Global module index
http://python.org/doc/2.4/modindex.html
it's hard not to notice the existence of the long list of Carbon.something modules in the left column.
I think it would be a good idea to replace this with a single entry for Carbon, that explains that those modules are deprecated and one should use PyObjC instead.
They're not deprecated because nothing technically replaces them. PyObjC, via Cocoa, gives you a lot of the functionality in a different (and likely more sensible) way. The CoreFoundation bits can and should (but are not currently) be replaced by a PyObjC implementation, but something like QuickTime, for example, isn't so easy.
-bob
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