On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 at 19:02, Laura Creighton wrote:
And there may be things that are so badly written that we actually want to throw them out of the standard library before people start using them. A note 'this module only exists for backwards compatibility, we recommend that you use XXX instead' will not be good enough for the purpose, we really want to stamp out the use of this mistake as soon and as well as possible. This could happen.
On a smaller scale, it did a while ago. Consider ConfigParser and SafeConfigParser. Although in that case the docs about the deprecation are not even as good as they could be (see http://bugs.python.org/issue6517). --David _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list stdlib-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
