deprecating the types module ? (was: problems with the types module)

[Laura Creighton]

We have just found a deficiency in our bug submitting process.  (Those of
you arriving late can read it all below).  Michele didn't know a docco
deficiency was a real bug, and might very likely have gone away and not
filed it unless Michael and others were personally supportive of her
effort.  This means we need to change the bug reporting interface so
that it immediately announces 'we like doccu deficiency reports', so
that she wouldn't go away.  Of course this will not help if she is so
conditioned to the idea that nobody cares about doccu deficiencies that
she didn't even consider submitting it, that just means society is broken,
but we need to encourage everybody who makes this effort as much as we can.

Thank you Michele for helping us debug our process.

Laura 


> mis6 at pitt.edu (Michele Simionato) writes:
> 
> > Michael Hudson <mwh at python.net> wrote in message news:<7h38yyvgto8.fsf at pc15
> 0.maths.bris.ac.uk>...
> > > mis6 at pitt.edu (Michele Simionato) writes:
> > > > Are really there plans to deprecated the types 
> > > > module
> > > 
> > > Unlikely.  You shouldn't use it for things like StringType, but for
> > > things like TracebackType there's nowhere else to go.
> > > 
> > > > and will be the documentation changed for Python 2.3 ?
> > > 
> > > I hope so.  Filing a bug report would make it more likely, I guess.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > M.
> > 
> > Okay, I have filed a documentation bug report, even it is not really a
> > bug but a request of documentation improving.
> 
> Cool.  Those things count as bugs in our world.
> 
> I should try to have a docco bugsplatting day sometime soonish.
> 
> Cheers,
> M.
> 
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