[Python-Dev] PEP 371: Additional Discussion

[Brett Cannon]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Benjamin Peterson
<musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Jesse Noller <jnoller at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Also - we could leave in stubs to match the threading api - Guido, David
>> Goodger and others really prefer not to continue the "broken" API of the
>> threading API
> I agree that the threading the the pyprocessing APIs should be PEP 8
> compliant, but I think 2 APIs is almost worse than one wrong one.
>

I disagree. If you state upfront that one of them is only for
backwards-compatibility/transitioning and will be going away in the
future, then I think it is fine to have the extra API.

-Brett