[stdlib-sig] Breaking out the stdlib

[Michael Foord]

R. David Murray wrote:
> 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).
Two examples of deprecated modules in the Python documentation:

http://docs.python.org/library/md5.html
http://docs.python.org/library/mimewriter.html

The deprecation notice could be stronger / more prominent.

Michael

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