[Python-Dev] Removing stuff from 2.4 (original) (raw)

A.M. Kuchling amk at amk.ca
Tue Aug 31 15:16:16 CEST 2004

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 12:57:37PM -0700, Guido van Rossum wrote:

(I still haven't started using the new email package, so I'm reluctant to see my beloved rfc822.py disappearing in the future; but I trust its fate is sealed, and I'm happy it gets an extension. :-)

I don't know if you followed the subsequent thread, but removing rfc822 is going to take quite a while. A 2.5 problem...

Removing statcache.py breaks two modules in Lib/lib-old, cmpcache.py and dircmp.py. What should be done: rewrite them to use os.stat instead of statcache, or just delete them? The files in lib-old were last touched six weeks ago when Tim cleaned up the whitespace; before that they hadn't been touched since 2001 at the latest..

Wow, before Tim's whitespace n11n, lib-old/newdir.py was last touched in August 1994. 10 years ago!

--amk

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