Comment on draft PEP for deprecating six builtins

[Raymond Hettinger]

"Martin v. Löwis" <loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de> wrote in message
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> "Raymond Hettinger" <python at rcn.com> writes:
>
> >     The module additions would go into Python 2.3.  All six
> > functions would be left intact and raise deprecation warnings in
> > Python 2.3 and 2.4.  The six functions would be removed in Python
> > 2.5 (having allowed two versions and a full year for code updates).
>
> I believe the phasing out of the old names should be even slower. In
> 2.3, introduce the new names; leave the old names intact unchanged. In
> 2.4 and 2.5, raise DeprecationWarnings; in 2.6, remove them.

Agreed.