[Python-Dev] Python 3.0.1 (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Wed Jan 28 00:37:52 CET 2009

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:

I have no problem with removing things that were advertised and/or documented to be removed in 3.0 but accidentally were not. That seems like a reasonable policy to me. However, if we did not tell people that something was going to be removed, then I don't think we can really remove it in 3.0.

As others have said, this would technically include cmp() removal. In the 2.x docs, there are big warnings by the operator functions and a suggestion to use ABCs. We also already have a 2to3 fixer for the module.

-- Regards, Benjamin

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