Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl> added the comment: Please use the deprecation process when possible. That would mean creating an alias for the function you want to remove somewhat like this (taken from configparser): def readfp(self, fp, filename=None): """Deprecated, use read_file instead.""" warnings.warn( "This method will be removed in future versions. " "Use 'parser.read_file()' instead.", PendingDeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2 ) self.read_file(fp, source=filename) ---------- nosy: +lukasz.langa _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10379> _______________________________________