[Import-SIG] Rough PEP: A ModuleSpec Type for the Import System

[Eric Snow]

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 12:23 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:

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> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Eric Snow <ericsnowcurrently at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Would it be worth deprecating the current signature and attributes of
>> FileLoader, NamespaceLoader, etc.  FileLoader.get_filename() uses
>> self.path, but otherwise the only use for the attributes is already covered
>> by the info in the spec.
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> Probably, or at least provide a Spec-only signature of the __init__().
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>> Also, should we have timelines for the deprecations in the PEP.  I'm
>> inclined to not worry about it, but it *would* be nice to remove at least
>> some of the backward compatibility hackery that this PEP will introduce.
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> Since the backwards-compatibility hacks don't sound like they will be
> ridiculously complex or getting in the way I say just put in proper
> PendingDeprecationWarnings and assume they will be there until Python 4 (no
> later than 8 years away! =).
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Sounds good.

-eric
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