[Python-Dev] PEP 371: Additional Discussion

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> 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.

In that case, I'm +1 as long as we implement a full DeprecationWarning on one.

>
> -Brett
>



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