[Python-Dev] More deprecations (original) (raw)

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Fri, 26 Apr 2002 09:52:50 +0200

Neal Norwitz wrote:

What are the modules that should keep backwards compatability with 1.5.2? It seems these are currently:

In general, I think it's a good idea to be very careful about introduce flashy new stuff to the std lib since it makes backporting fixes harder, e.g. using Python 2.1 features is OK, but not 2.2 features (if not absolutely necessary or only if they are easily separatable from the rest of the code).

inspect pydoc

+0 on those

sre* xmlrpclib

+1 on those two

Is this correct? Are there others?

I suppose you should add the PyXML stuff (the part which is the std dist). Don't whether the PyXML team needs these bits for their standalone distributions, though.

And distutils, as Andrew already mentioned.

You should also keep in mind that porting to Jython should remain easily possible. Breaking that link would cause unnecessary work on the Jython side.

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