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

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed Aug 14 20:37:07 CEST 2013

On 8/14/2013 12:09 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

On 14 August 2013 11:55, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

I view a deprecation as the same thing. If we leave the module in until Python 4 then I can live with that, but simply moving documentation around is not enough to communicate to those who didn't read the release notes to know modules they rely on are now essentially orphaned. No, a deprecation isn't enough, because it doesn't help authors and educators to know "this is legacy, you can skip it". We need both.

At least a couple of releases before deletion, we should put a 'legacy' package up on pypi. Then the deprecation message could say to use that as an alternative.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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