On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
Moore, Paul writes:
[BTW, this reminds me of your point on what is documented. I believe that the PEPs and descrintro count as the canonical documentation of these features. If they haven't been fully migrated into the Python documentation set yet, that's a secondary issue. The PEPs *are* the definition of what was agreed - people had time to comment on the PEPs at the time. And the descrintro document is the current draft of the user-level documentation. You can assume it will end up in the manuals. That's my view...]
This is my perspective as well. I'm not in a hurry to document relatively volatile feature that may change and (hopefully!) be available using a nicer syntax in the future.
Then what is the criterion for deciding when to apply the standard Python deprecation procedures when things like super() and the __slots__ change? # Python 2.3? from __future__ import super_as_builtin from __future__ import hidden_slots I had (possibly incorrectly) assumed that the criterion was when it was officially documented in a release. -Kevin -- Kevin Jacobs The OPAL Group - Enterprise Systems Architect Voice: (216) 986-0710 x 19 E-mail: jacobs@theopalgroup.com Fax: (216) 986-0714 WWW: http://www.theopalgroup.com