Author: brett.cannon Date: Tue Apr 29 02:37:53 2008 New Revision: 62571 Log: Copy over PEP 4 reasoning for why modules should be removed. Modified: peps/trunk/pep-3108.txt Modified: peps/trunk/pep-3108.txt ============================================================================== --- peps/trunk/pep-3108.txt (original) +++ peps/trunk/pep-3108.txt Tue Apr 29 02:37:53 2008 @@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ --------------------- PEP 4 lists all modules that have been deprecated in the stdlib -(including motivation as to why) [#pep-0004]_. All modules listed +[#pep-0004]_. The specified motivations mirror those listed in +PEP 4. All modules listed in the PEP at the time of the first alpha release of Python 3.0 will be removed. @@ -79,30 +80,61 @@ * buildtools + + Documented as deprecated since Python 2.3 without an explicit + reason. + * cfmfile + + Documented as deprecated since Python 2.4 without an explicit + reason. + * cl + + Documented as obsolete since Python 2.0 or earlier. + + Interface to SGI hardware. + * md5 + + Supplanted by the ``hashlib`` module. + * mimetools + + Documented as obsolete without an explicit reason. + * MimeWriter + + Supplaned by the ``email`` package. + * mimify + + Supplanted by the ``email`` package. + * multifile + + Supplanted by the ``email`` package. + * posixfile + + Locking is better done by ``fcntl.lockf()``. + * rfc822 + + Supplanted by the ``email`` package. + * sha + + Supplanted by the ``hashlib`` package. + * sv + + Documented as obsolete since Python 2.0 or earlier. + + Interface to obsolete SGI Indigo hardware. + * timing + + Documented as obsolete since Python 2.0 or earlier. + + ``time.clock()`` gives better time resolution. + Platform-specific with minimal use ----------------------------------