[Python-Dev] Operator module deprecations

[Raymond Hettinger]

For Py3.0.1, can we just rip these out and skip deprecation?
I don't think they will be missed at all.

Raymond

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org>
To: "Nick Coghlan" <ncoghlan at gmail.com>
Cc: <python-dev at python.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Operator module deprecations


> +1 indeedy.
> 
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Brett Cannon wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 14:46, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
>>>> I would like to deprecate some outdated functions in the operator module.
>>>>
>>>> The isSequenceType(), isMappingType(), and isNumberType()
>>>> functions never worked reliably and now their
>>>> intended purpose has been largely fulfilled by
>>>> ABCs.
>>>>
>>>> The isCallable() function has long been deprecated
>>>> and I think it's finally time to rip it out.
>>>>
>>>> The repeat() function never really corresponded to an
>>>> operator.  Instead, it reflected an underlying implementation detail (namely
>>>> the naming of the sq_repeat slot and the abstract C API function
>>>> PySequence_Repeat).  That functionality is already exposed by operator.mul:
>>>>
>>>>  operator.mul('abc', 3) --> 'abcabcabc'
>>>
>>> +1 to all of it.
>>
>> What Brett said.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Nick.
>>
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>> Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
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