[Python-Dev] Trickery with moving urllib

[Brett Cannon]

On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> Brett Cannon schrieb:
>>
>> There is going to be an issue with the current proposal for keeping
>> around urllib. Since the package is to be named the same thing as the
>> module, to handle the new name that means urllib.__init__ will need to
>> gain the Py3K warning for the new name. But that doesn't quite work as
>> the package's module will be imported automatically any time the
>> module within the package is used.
>
> In this context, what's become of PEP 364? Is it still alive? Does it
> cover this case?
>

PEP 364 was pre-2to3 (Barry and I came up with that solution at the
same PyCon 2to3 was conceived). A 2to3 fixer that handles the renames
does the same thing; so no, it doesn't solve the issue directly.

-Brett