[Python-Dev] Distutils using apply (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Mon, 05 May 2003 09:50:05 -0400

My comment was not specifically about Moshe's use case - it's about the meaning of deprecation in Python.

Does it always have to mean "start replacing because it will go away" as seems to be implied by PEP 5 or perhaps in some cases it could just mean "please don't use this in new code, okay" ?

I think that can be safely left up to the individual programmer, who has a better idea (hopefully) on the life expectancy of his code. We try to give guidance about the urgency of the deprecation e.g. in PEPs or by using the normally-silent PendingDeprecation (which suggests it's not urgent :-).

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