[Python-Dev] PEP 8 and optional underscores (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Jun 15 09:49:25 CEST 2008

Georg Brandl wrote:

Nick Coghlan schrieb:

This has become a lot more complicated than what I thought we were doing: adding PEP 8 compliant aliases for the existing methods without otherwise changing the threading implementation. As far as I can recall, that is all that was contained in the 2.x patch I reviewed. _The move to attributes instead of attributes was done quite a while earlier, in r57222, by Guido himself.

Well, that would explain why it wasn't in the patch I reviewed then :)

Raymond's right that a bunch of those methods are fairly pointless though (relics of the module's Java origins I guess, just like the camelCase naming).

Perhaps PEP 371 should be expanded a bit to give some details on the cleaned up threading API, as well as a deprecation schedule for the old API?

My suggestion would be that we keep the old API around in 3.0 and just give it a vanilla PendingDeprecationWarning, then look at actually deprecating it in 3.1 for removal in 3.2 - by that time, the need for compatibility with versions prior to 2.6 should be fairly rare.

Cheers, Nick.

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