[Python-Dev] Deprecate sys.exitfunc? (original) (raw)

Neil Schemenauer nas at arctrix.com
Tue Aug 17 19:00:05 CEST 2004


On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 11:23:10AM -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote:

Care to reword that without the double negative? I tried and came up with

That's sometimes a reason to deprecate something. which seems like you're saying that breaking existing well-behaving modules is sometimes a good reason to deprecate something.

I think Guido's point was that deprecating something is not the same as making a backwards incompatible change. It probably would be good to deprecate features that will be removed in 3.0.

IMO, the sys.exitfunc should not be renamed to sys._exitfunc before 3.0.

Neil



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