[stdlib-sig] Breaking out the stdlib

[R. David Murray]

On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 at 19:02, Laura Creighton wrote:
> And there may be things that are so badly written that we actually want
> to throw them out of the standard library before people start using them.
> A note 'this module only exists for backwards compatibility, we
> recommend that you use XXX instead' will not be good enough for the
> purpose, we really want to stamp out the use of this mistake as soon
> and as well as possible.  This could happen.

On a smaller scale, it did a while ago.  Consider ConfigParser and
SafeConfigParser.  Although in that case the docs about the
deprecation are not even as good as they could be (see
http://bugs.python.org/issue6517).

--David