[Python-Dev] deprecating string module?

[Guido van Rossum]

> Removing it will break lots of code.  Leaving it alone until Python 3k
> costs us almost nothing.  Can we please just leave it alone?

That's exactly what the PendingDeprecationWarning is for.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)