[issue24203] Deprecate threading.Thread.isDaemon etc

Change by Irit Katriel : -- resolution: -> duplicate stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed superseder: -> Deprecate camelCase aliases from threading.py ___ Python tracker

[issue24203] Deprecate threading.Thread.isDaemon etc

Berker Peksag added the comment: The docs for old API already say: Old getter/setter API for name; use it directly as a property instead. https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/threading.html#threading.Thread.getName Users don't read the documentation every six or fifteen months so it would

[issue24203] Deprecate threading.Thread.isDaemon etc

R. David Murray added the comment: Well, the idea would be to do a documentation-only deprecation; as in, effectively: this is the older API, you probably really want to use this newer API that is more convenient. I don't have a strong opinion either way in this case. -- nosy:

[issue24203] Deprecate threading.Thread.isDaemon etc

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: > Removing them would make porting code from Python 2 harder > so I think it's better to keep them for a while. So, no deprecations. The API is now a bit redundant but it isn't broken or problematic in any way. We don't have to deprecate this for any

[issue24203] Deprecate threading.Thread.isDaemon etc

Berker Peksag added the comment: +1 for deprecating them. Removing them would make porting code from Python 2 harder so I think it's better to keep them for a while. -- components: +Library (Lib) keywords: +patch nosy: +berker.peksag stage: -> patch review title: Depreciate