[Python-Dev] Trickery with moving urllib

[Fred Drake]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> I see three solutions for dealing with this.
>
> 1. Have stubs for the entire urllib API in urllib.__init__ that raise
> a DeprecationWarning either specifying the new name or saying the
> function/class is deprecated.

On May 11, 2008, at 2:58 AM, Alexandre Vassalotti wrote:
> I am probably missing something, because I don't see how this solution
> would solve the problem. The warning in urllib.__init__ will still be
> issued when people will import urllib.fetch (or urllib.fetch).


Were the warnings issued on import, yes, but I think Brett's  
suggestion was really about issuing warnings when the stub functions  
were called.  For classes, I guess this could be handled using the  
__init__ methods, but I'm not sure I like that, or that it will be  
easy to get exactly the right behavior in all cases.


   -Fred

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