[Python-Dev] Autoloading? (Making Queue.Queue easier to use)

[Aahz]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005, Michael Chermside wrote:
> Guido says:
>> Aahz writes:
>>>
>>> (Python 3.0 should "deprecate" ``thread`` by renaming it to ``_thread``).
>> 
>> +1. (We could even start doing this before 3.0.)
> 
> Before 3.0, let's deprecate it by listing it in the Deprecated modules
> section within the documentation... no need to gratuitously break code
> by renaming it until 3.0 arrives.

Note carefully the deprecation in quotes.  It's not going to be
literally deprecated, only renamed, similar to the way _socket and
socket work together.  We could also rename to _threading, but I prefer
the simpler change of only a prepended underscore.
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