[Python-Dev] PEP 411 - request for pronouncement (original) (raw)

Eli Bendersky eliben at gmail.com
Mon Mar 26 05:40:41 CEST 2012

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 13:53, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:51, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:

The PEP received mostly positive feedback. The only undecided point is where to specify that the package is provisional. Currently the PEP mandates to specify it in the documentation and in the docstring. Other suggestions were to put it in the code, either as a provisional attribute on the module, or collect all such modules in a single sys.provisional list. I'm not sure what the usecase is for checking in code if a module is provisional or not. It doesn't seem useful, and risks being unmaintained, especially when the flag is on the module itself.

Some usecases were given by Jim J. Jewett here: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116400.html (and +1-ed by a couple of others.)

Eli

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