[Python-Dev] Process to remove a Python feature

[Steve Dower]

To be fair, if they hadn’t already been deprecated we would have had to deprecate the old behaviour for a couple of releases before changing it. It just so happened that we did the deprecation first without knowing what the fix would be :)

Top-posted from my Windows phone

From: Victor Stinner
Sent: Friday, May 4, 2018 15:24
To: Serhiy Storchaka
Cc: python-dev
Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Process to remove a Python feature

2018-05-04 20:48 GMT+02:00 Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com>:
> I think the information about since which version number it will be removed
> is more useful.

About deprecation, there is the funny story of bytes filenames on
Windows. I deprecated this feature in Windows 3.3 since it was broken.
I really wanted hard to remove support for bytes filenames on Windows.

One day, Steve Dower showed up with the PEP 529 "Change Windows
filesystem encoding to UTF-8" and he just *removed the deprecation
warning* from Python 3.6, since bytes filenames are now working as
intended :-)

Victor
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