[Python-Dev] source-level backward compatibility requirements

[Guido van Rossum]

> On the other hand, I find I'm not really a fan of deprecating apply()
> in the first place, so I can think of other solutions.  ;-)

We could deprecate it in the docs but remove the silent warning which
slows it down.  Then we could leave it in the logging module until
3.0.

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