[Python-Dev] PEP 411 - request for pronouncement

[Eli Bendersky]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 13:53, Lennart Regebro <regebro at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 10:51, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The PEP received mostly positive feedback. The only undecided point is
>> where to specify that the package is provisional. Currently the PEP
>> mandates to specify it in the documentation and in the docstring.
>> Other suggestions were to put it in the code, either as a
>> __provisional__ attribute on the module, or collect all such modules
>> in a single sys.provisional list.
>
> I'm not sure what the usecase is for checking in code if a module is
> provisional or not. It doesn't seem useful, and risks being
> unmaintained, especially when the flag is on the module itself.
>

Some usecases were given by Jim J. Jewett here:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116400.html
(and +1-ed by a couple of others.)

Eli