[python-committers] Re: Deprecation policy reminder

https://github.com/python/steering-council/issues/75 On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 8:21 AM Barry Warsaw wrote: > PEP 387 says: > > The steering council may grant exceptions to this policy. In > particular, they may shorten the > required deprecation period for a feature. Exceptions are only gra

[python-committers] Re: Deprecation policy reminder

PEP 387 says: The steering council may grant exceptions to this policy. In particular, they may shorten the required deprecation period for a feature. Exceptions are only granted for extreme situations such as dangerously broken or insecure features or features no one could reasonab

[python-committers] Re: Deprecation policy reminder

Hey Guido, The PEP notes that the steering council can grant exceptions to the policy in some cases. So maybe it's time to loop them in and ask them about the PyCode_New proposal. Ammar Askar On Thu, Sep 2, 2021, 11:03 AM Guido van Rossum wrote: > Are there any exceptions? In the discussion ab

[python-committers] Re: Deprecation policy reminder

Are there any exceptions? In the discussion about PyCode_New we've come to the conclusion that keeping it and PyCode_NewWithPosArgs around is going to be impossible to support, and we've found the few users of that API (Cython) supportive of changing it incompatibly. On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 3:56 AM

[python-committers] Deprecation policy reminder

Hi there, I noticed some deprecation activity this week. Nice! I'd just like to remind everyone that we have a policy for that described in PEP 387 It's a very short PEP so I recommend you read it in its entirety. The important piece I want to highlig