[Python-Dev] PEP 8 and optional underscores

[Nick Coghlan]

Georg Brandl wrote:
> Nick Coghlan schrieb:
>> This has become a lot more complicated than what I thought we were 
>> doing: adding PEP 8 compliant aliases for the existing methods without 
>> otherwise changing the threading implementation. As far as I can 
>> recall, that is all that was contained in the 2.x patch I reviewed.
> 
> The move to _attributes instead of __attributes was done quite a while
> earlier, in r57222, by Guido himself.

Well, that would explain why it wasn't in the patch I reviewed then :)

Raymond's right that a bunch of those methods are fairly pointless 
though (relics of the module's Java origins I guess, just like the 
camelCase naming).

Perhaps PEP 371 should be expanded a bit to give some details on the 
cleaned up threading API, as well as a deprecation schedule for the old API?

My suggestion would be that we keep the old API around in 3.0 and just 
give it a vanilla PendingDeprecationWarning, then look at actually 
deprecating it in 3.1 for removal in 3.2 - by that time, the need for 
compatibility with versions prior to 2.6 should be fairly rare.

Cheers,
Nick.

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