[Python-Dev] Backward incompatible API changes in the pydoc module

[Éric Araujo]

Hi Nick,

If there is no enormous difficulty in maintaining compatibility, I think
the usual deprecation process should be followed.  We don’t know who is
using pydoc as a library, so let’s play safe and not risk breaking their
code (especially considering that it must not have been easy to write
code extending pydoc :).

BTW, doesn’t the process start with PendingDeprecationWarnings, then
DeprecationWarnings?

Regards