[Python-Dev] Removing stuff from 2.4 (original) (raw)

A.M. Kuchling amk at amk.ca
Sat Aug 7 22:57:03 CEST 2004

Hunting for deprecated modules.

Deprecated in 2.1: TERMIOS.py, whrandom.py.
Deprecated in 2.2: mpz module, statcache module.

There are also various 2.2-deprecated methods in the email package; Barry can decide if he wants to bother with them or not.
Deprecated in 2.3: xreadlines module, rotor module, rfc822 module, mimetools module, mimify module, MimeWriter module.

Only rotor and xreadlines raise a DeprecationWarning in 2.3, so they're the only candidates for removal. The other modules, except for xreadlines, are marked as deprecated in PEP4; should we make them trigger DeprecationWarnings?

My proposal:

Remove TERMIOS, mpz, statcache, xreadlines, rotor.
Make rfc822 raise PendingDeprecationWarning (so nothing will happen in 2.4 unless you have -Wa)
Make mimetools, mimify, Mimewrite raise DeprecationWarnings. (This is the part I'm least sure about; comments from people who know about these modules would be appreciated. Should they raise Pending instead?)

I don't know what to do about whrandom, if anything; remove it? Leave it for 2.5? suggestions?

--amk