<html><head/><body><html><head></head><body>I never realized it existed till now. Considering the usually erratic projects I like do, I can see that coming in use in several in which I had to do odd workarounds.<br>
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Keep it, but put better documentation. It's needed.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">At the PyCon CA sprint someone discovered the formatter module had somewhat low code coverage. We discovered this is because it's tested by test_sundry, i.e. it's tested by importing it and that's it.<div>
<br /></div><div>We then realized that it isn't really used by anyone (pydoc uses it but it should have been using textwrap). Looking at the history of the module it has just been a magnet for cleanup revisions and not actual usage or development since Guido added it back in 1995.<div>
<div><br /></div><div>I have created <a href="http://bugs.python.org/issue18716">http://bugs.python.org/issue18716</a> to deprecate the formatter module for removal in Python 3.6 unless someone convinces me otherwise that deprecation and removal is the wrong move.</div>
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