[Python-Dev] Rewriting PEP4 (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at iinet.net.au
Tue Dec 7 10:46:41 CET 2004

One other question occurred to me for "deprecate X in favour of Y" situations - should the deprecation warning added to X point developers towards Y?

Also, should the PEP include example wordings for deprecation warnings, rather than being completely freeform? Martin listed some information that should be included, but it seems an example or two would make it easy to get right.

E.g.:

Unmaintained, with a maintained alternative:

"Due to lack of maintenance, this module has been deprecated in favour of module Y and will be removed in Python 2.6 (see PEP 4 for information on the deprecation process)"

Security problems, no alternative:

"Due to security concerns, this module has been deprecated and will be removed in Python 2.6 (see PEP 4 for information on the deprecation process)"

Cheers, Nick.

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