[Python-Dev] Deprecating the formatter module (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Aug 14 17:26:13 CEST 2013

Le Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:08:29 -0400, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> a écrit :

> > You know, there may be one or two Python programmers who didn't go > to PyCon CA... :-) >

Sure, but you would assume at least one person would have known of the module in a room of sprinters.

Not necessarily. There are specialized modules which may be of use to only a certain category of people, and unknown to others.

> Over on Python-Ideas mailing list, there are periodic frenzies of > requests to delete all sorts of things, e.g. a recent thread > debating deleting various string methods in favour of using {} > string formatting. My answer there is the same as my answer here: > unless the formatter module is actively harmful, then deprecation > risks causing more pain than benefit. All those thousands of coders > who don't use formatter? The benefit to them of deprecating it is > next to zero. That one guy in Uberwald you've never heard of who > does use it? It's going to cause him a lot of pain.

That's fine, but this is also about me and every other core developer who stands behind every module in the stdlib as being as bug-free as possible and generally useful to warrant people learning about them. I'm saying I don't want to maintain it and have to clean up it's code every time there is a stdlib-wide cleanup or if there is ever a bug.

Not all of us have to maintain it :-) I'm not gonna maintain it either, but that doesn't mean someone else won't step up.

Regards

Antoine.

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