[Python-Dev] Finishing up PEP 3108

[Georg Brandl]

Brett Cannon schrieb:
> The issues related to PEP 3108 now total 14. With the beta
> (supposedly) in a week, I am hoping the last minor details can be
> pulled together or decisions made on what can be postponed and what
> should definitely be considered a release blocker.
> 
> Issue 2847 - the aifc module still imports the cl module in 3.0.
> Problem is that the cl module is gone. =) So it seems silly to have
> the imports lying about. This can probably be changed to critical.

It shouldn't be a problem to rip everything cl-related out of aifc.
The question is how useful aifc will be after that ...

> Issue 2848 - mimetools has been deprecated for a while, but it is
> still used in a bunch of places. Since this has been deprecated in PEP
> 4 for a long time, should we add the removal warning in 2.6 now and
> then make its actual removal of usage something to do by another beta?
> 
> Issue 2849 - rfc822 is the same problem as mimetools.

The problem is that nobody seems to know what exactly distinguishes
mimetools/rfc822' classes and its successor's (email's) classes, so
it's hard to replace it in the stdlib.

> Issue 2873 - htmllib is slated to go, but pydoc still uses it. Then
> again, pydoc is busted thanks to the new doc format.

I will try to handle this in the coming week.

> Issue 2919 - profile and cProfile needs to be merged. This has not
> been dealt with yet. Would it be reasonable to deprecate importing
> cProfile directly in 2.6 with the assumption the merge will work out
> for 3.0?

That's not the right way to go, you don't want to deprecate cStringIO
or cPickle either.

> So that is everything that's left. Issue 2775 is the tracking issue so
> you can look there to see what issues are still open and need work. I
> was hoping to spend Monday and Tuesday trying to tie up as many loose
> ends as possible, but the conference paper I have been working on that
> was due Sunday is now due a week later, and so Monday and Tuesday will
> be spent on that (supervisor's orders). Plus I am flying out Wednesday
> for 10 days to help my mother move and I don't know when I will get
> Net again. In other words, I still need help. =)

Let's hope we get this right in time.

Then again, there are lots of other release blockers, so it may well be
that the beta is delayed by some time.

Georg