[Python-Dev] Unittests (original) (raw)

Aahz aahz@pythoncraft.com
Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:28:24 -0400

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

Aahz wrote:

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002, Neal Norwitz wrote:

whrandom.py This is a deprecated module, no? I certainly hope not.

Well, you hope wrong. ;-) Argue with the Timbot.

Actually, I think the issue of whether to deprecate whrandom is a good concrete point to wrap the stability discussion around. On the one hand, it is a no-longer maintained module that has been superseded by another. random.py was certainly available as far back as 1.5.2 (just triple-checked), and Tim at least was constantly pushing people to use random instead of whrandom.

OTOH, I was one of the people who used whrandom back then because it was simpler than random (don't remember why ;-). If I were distributing code, I can see being upset that whrandom were being deleted.

My suggestion is that whrandom get a warning in 2.3 and 2.4, then deleted in the following version.

Note to Tim: you haven't followed PEP 4, so you can't really say that whrandom is deprecated yet.

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