[Python-3000] PEP 3108 - stdlib reorg/cleanup

[Thomas Wouters]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Adam Olsen <rhamph at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> >  * sched
> >
> >   + Replaced by threading.Timer.
>
> I don't see sched as obsoleted by threading.Timer.  It's much simpler
> to use (no need for locking) and more efficient (no legions of
> sleeping threads).  Instead, maybe it should be removed because it's
> trivial to reimplement as well as being overshadowed by all the other
> event loops built into bigger systems (tk, qt, gtk, twisted, etc)?
>

More importantly, sched doesn't use threads, so replacing it with
threading.Timer is inappropriate :) But yes, it should just go.

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