[Python-Dev] Deprecate sys.exitfunc?

[Neil Schemenauer]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 11:23:10AM -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> Care to reword that without the double negative?  I tried and came
> up with
> 
>     That's sometimes a reason to deprecate something.
> 
> which seems like you're saying that breaking existing
> well-behaving modules is sometimes a good reason to deprecate
> something. 

I think Guido's point was that deprecating something is not the same
as making a backwards incompatible change.  It probably would be
good to deprecate features that will be removed in 3.0.

IMO, the sys.exitfunc should not be renamed to sys._exitfunc before
3.0.

  Neil