[Python-Dev] Autoloading? (Making Queue.Queue easier to use) (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Oct 12 23:24:49 CEST 2005

On 10/12/05, Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> wrote:

Note carefully the deprecation in quotes. It's not going to be literally deprecated, only renamed, similar to the way socket and socket work together. We could also rename to threading, but I prefer the simpler change of only a prepended underscore.

Could you specify exactly what you have in mind? How would backwards compatibility be maintained in 2.x?

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