Comment on draft PEP for deprecating six builtins

[Martin v. Löwis]

"Raymond Hettinger" <python at rcn.com> writes:

>     The module additions would go into Python 2.3.  All six
> functions would be left intact and raise deprecation warnings in
> Python 2.3 and 2.4.  The six functions would be removed in Python
> 2.5 (having allowed two versions and a full year for code updates).

I believe the phasing out of the old names should be even slower. In
2.3, introduce the new names; leave the old names intact unchanged. In
2.4 and 2.5, raise DeprecationWarnings; in 2.6, remove them.

Regards,
Martin