[Python-Dev] Backward incompatible API changes in the pydoc module

[R. David Murray]

On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:02:24 +0100, <merwok at netwok.org> wrote:
> If there is no enormous difficulty in maintaining compatibility, I think
> the usual deprecation process should be followed.  We don’t know who is
> using pydoc as a library, so let’s play safe and not risk breaking their
> code (especially considering that it must not have been easy to write
> code extending pydoc :).
> 
> BTW, doesn’t the process start with PendingDeprecationWarnings, then
> DeprecationWarnings?

No, PendingDeprecationWarning was something used when we wanted a
default-silent deprecation warning for a while before doing an
actual deprecation.  Now that deprecation warnings are silent
by default we'll probably never need PendingDeprecationWarning ever
again :)

--David