June 9, 2003
2:27 p.m.
I am +1 on deprecating string exceptions for Python 3.
Python 3 will not have string exceptions.
PEP 317 actually proposes formally deprecating them in 2.4, and eliminating them entirely in 3.0. Are you +1 on that?
Given how deeply embedded string exceptions are in Python, I believe that we cannot afford to issue a DeprecationWarning until we start doing the same for integer division.
I don't see a reason to tie these two events together, but I agree that 2.4 is probably too early to start being noisy about string exceptions. Nevertheless they should be deprecated in all docs. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)