To be fair, if they hadn’t already been deprecated we would have had to deprecate the old behaviour for a couple of releases before changing it. It just so happened that we did the deprecation first without knowing what the fix would be :) Top-posted from my Windows phone From: Victor Stinner Sent: Friday, May 4, 2018 15:24 To: Serhiy Storchaka Cc: python-dev Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Process to remove a Python feature 2018-05-04 20:48 GMT+02:00 Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>:
I think the information about since which version number it will be removed is more useful.
About deprecation, there is the funny story of bytes filenames on Windows. I deprecated this feature in Windows 3.3 since it was broken. I really wanted hard to remove support for bytes filenames on Windows. One day, Steve Dower showed up with the PEP 529 "Change Windows filesystem encoding to UTF-8" and he just *removed the deprecation warning* from Python 3.6, since bytes filenames are now working as intended :-) Victor _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/steve.dower%40python.org