[Python-Dev] pending deprecation warning for Set.update

Wed Sep 17 17:45:14 EDT 2003

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

> It is pretty conservative to issue a pending warning now, a deprecation
> warning in 2.4, and remove the duplicate method in 2.5.

No, it is *not* conservative to add a warning in a maintenance branch,
pending or not. Even changing the documentation only would not be
conservative.

It might be sensible (which I think it is not), but it is not
conservative.

Regards,
Martin