[Python-3000] Still get rid of the stat module?

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Aug 25 13:14:06 CEST 2008


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Aug 21, 2008, at 4:22 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman  
> <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> wrote:
>> Brett Cannon wrote:
>>>
>>> So my question is whether it is still worth trying to remove the
>>> module, or just leave it be.
>>
>> Seeing this is the only chance in the coming 15 years to fix this,  
>> I'd say
>> fix it... Having it around is pretty ugly, when the "real" stat() is
>> actually in os.
>
> Why? We could just deprecate it and rip it out in 3.1 or 3.2.

+1
- -Barry

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin)

iQCVAwUBSLKT/nEjvBPtnXfVAQJOAwQAjTCgd+oI/BZCvRvKv25NroJuUo6iJPS3
eDv1rhmcMcIfTnQM5s2ZfATNWPVySHutiMy3Yr/kRmFZ8kcNwwJqwybc6KpTkGD2
waFYXsNvUb01MlHwcKCnZjYgYrXmFIvWJV+n6TqqjA0GpsswE8pZosA8Da5wpIqT
pLRD7phA+E8=
=YuAe
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


More information about the Python-3000 mailing list