[Python-Dev] Re: Deprecating divmod() // % for complex (original) (raw)

Neal Norwitz neal@metaslash.com
Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:58:37 -0400

"Fred L. Drake, Jr." wrote:

Neal Norwitz writes: > So the APIs and doc can be removed. Here's the current list, > found by a lot of grepping in the Python modules: The docs cannot be removed when something becomes deprecated, only when it is removed. Deprecated features still need to be documented since someone will need to modify code to not use the deprecated feature. This requires understanding the deprecated material as well as whatever is used to supplant it.

I agree. My point (which wasn't clear) was how does one know when to remove a deprecated feature from X years ago.
Right now, it takes a lot of work to grep through the code & docs.

Neal