[Python-Dev] standard library mimetypes module pathologically broken? (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Wed Aug 12 05:22:02 CEST 2009

2009/8/11 Jacob Rus <jacobolus at gmail.com>:

I have some other questions: How does one deprecate part of a standard library API? How can we alert users to the deprecation? When can the deprecated parts be removed?

Basically, you add a DeprecationWarning to the API. Then remove it in the next major version.

If python-dev was more interested, we would have a policy for this. *cough*

I don't want to just give up on this, because I put more than a day of time into it, and I really do think the previous code was of poorer quality than should be in the standard library: I don't want new Python users reading it and thinking that's just how things are done around here. But if no one looks at my patches, I'm not sure what more I can do.

It looks like you need to add some tests for the bugs you fixed to test_mimetypes. While you're at it, you could improve that test generally, since it's not exactly extensive.

Then, you might garner some more reviews by putting your patch up on Rietveld; it makes reviewing much painful.

-- Regards, Benjamin

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