[Python-Dev] Module renaming and pickle mechanisms (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun May 18 15:14:00 CEST 2008

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

Perhaps I have a misunderstanding of the reasoning behind doing the renaming in the 2.x branch, but it appears that the only reason is to get used to the new names. That's a rather low priority argument in comparison to the breakage the renaming will cause in the 2.x branch.

I think this is the key point here. The possibility of breaking pickling compatibility never came up during the PEP 3108 discussions, so wasn't taken into account in deciding whether or not backporting the name changes was a good idea.

I think it's pretty clear that the code needs to be moved back into the modules with the old names for 2.6. The only question is whether or not we put any effort into making the new stdlib organisation usable in 2.x, or just rely on 2to3 to fix it (note that the "increasing the common subset" argument doesn't really apply, since you can catch the import errors in order to try both names).

Cheers, Nick.

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