[Python-Dev] RE: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Modules stropmodule.c,2.76,2.77 (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@digicool.com
Wed, 09 May 2001 21:25:43 -0500

Perhaps 2.2 should deprecate direct use of strop noisily -- warn when imported, except when imported by string.py. (No idea how you'd implement that, I'm just spouting off.) Then it could go away in 2.3.

I have had the necessary mods sitting in my directory for months (it was one of my first tests for using the warnings module), but decided against checking it in because I found there's quite a bit of code that triggered the warnings. Maybe I should check it in into 2.2a0, so developers can get used to it.

I don't think there's anything particularly controversial about 'strop' going away after one release with a deprecation warning -- it's not 'string', after all! (Ie. imported by every single scrap of Python code ever written before string methods came along, and by quite a lot since then.)

Agreed.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)