[Python-Dev] Trickery with moving urllib

[Alexandre Vassalotti]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> I see three solutions for dealing with this.
>
> 1. Have stubs for the entire urllib API in urllib.__init__ that raise
> a DeprecationWarning either specifying the new name or saying the
> function/class is deprecated.
>
> 2. Rename urllib to urllib.fetch or urllib.old_request to get people
> to move over to urllib.request (aka urllib2) at some point.
>

I am probably missing something, because I don't see how this solution
would solve the problem. The warning in urllib.__init__ will still be
issued when people will import urllib.fetch (or urllib.fetch).

-- Alexandre