[Python-Dev] Forgotten Py3.0 change to remove Queue.empty() and Queue.full()

Raymond Hettinger python at rcn.com
Sat Mar 7 03:31:34 CET 2009


[Guido van Rossum]
> Based on our experiences so far, I think that of the two options we
> have, both of which are bad, it's better to keep things in 3.1 that we
> were planning to remove but forgot, than to make 3.1 have a whole slew
> of additional removals. We've removed cmp() in 3.0.1, and I think that
> was actually the right thing to do given its prominence and the clear
> decision to remove it, but for smaller stuff that didn't make the cut
> I think we should favor backwards compatibility over cleanup.

To some extent we get both by leaving them in the module
but continuing to be left out of the docs.  


Raymond


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