[Python-Dev] future and present (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de
Sat, 11 Aug 2001 09:43:05 +0200

Although there could be a warning (off by default) in 2.3 or whenever to let users know that the code is no longer needed. People tend to cut & paste and reuse code from others, without always knowing why. Noops should be culled from code as a general rule =).

Actually, Tim promised to write a tool to remove unneeded future imports, when the feature was first discussed. Maybe he did not actually promise to write such a tool, but only explained how easy it would be to write, given that it is introspective :-)

Regards, Martin