[Python-Dev] Choosing an official stance towards module deprecation in Python 3 (original) (raw)

Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettinger at gmail.com
Sat Sep 12 00:39:20 CEST 2015

On Sep 11, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Brett Cannon <bcannon at gmail.com> wrote:

In order to facilitate writing code that works in both Python 2 & 3 simultaneously, any module that exists in both Python 3.5 and Python 2.7 will not be removed from the standard library until Python 2.7 is no longer supported as specified by PEP 373. Exempted from this rule is any module in the idlelib package as well as any exceptions granted by the Python development team.

I think that reads nicely. It makes a clear contract with developers letting them know that we will avoid making their life unnecessarily difficult.

Raymond

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