[Python-Dev] deprecated stuff in standard library

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Feb 19 14:10:54 CET 2010


Isn't mhlib itself deprecated? (It's gone in Py3k.)

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:33 AM, Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd at acm.org> wrote:
> I have noticed that deprecated stuff is still being used in the standard
> Python library.  When using modules that contain deprecated stuff you
> get a warning, and as a mere user there isn't much you can do about that.
>
> As a general rule, the Python standard library should not use deprecated
> constructs in non-deprecated (or otherwise deprecated) modules.
>
> The case I am running into is that mhlib uses multifile (in 2.6).

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