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

A.M. Kuchling amk at amk.ca
Mon Aug 9 23:15:17 CEST 2004

On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 05:59:22PM +1000, Anthony Baxter wrote:

The AddlistClass in email is marked as deprecated, but is deprecated in favour of a class in rfc822!

Maybe deprecating rfc822 simply isn't a worthwhile goal?

Anyway, here's a revised action list:

Remove TERMIOS, mpz, statcache, xreadlines, rotor. (Unchanged from my earlier proposal.)

These modules have raised DeprecationWarning for a while, but only rotor is listed in PEP 4. I'll add them to the PEP in any event; is not being listed sufficient grounds for delaying their removal to 2.5?

(I would say we don't need to wait until 2.5; they've been raising DeprecationWarnings for a long time, so users should be well aware the modules' days are numbered.)
Leave rfc822, mimetools alone; the stdlib will have to avoid their use first, and I'm not going to do that right now.
Make mimify, MimeWriter raise DeprecationWarnings; nothing in the stdlib uses them.

--amk