[Python-Dev] PEP: Consolidating names in the `unittest` module

[Collin Winter]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Michael Foord
<fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
> Collin Winter wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Backwards Compatibility
>>> =======================
>>>
>>> The names to be obsoleted should be deprecated and removed according
>>> to the schedule for modules in PEP 4 [#PEP-4]_.
>>>
>>> While deprecated, use of the deprecated attributes should raise a
>>> ``DeprecationWarning``, with a message stating which replacement name
>>> should be used.
>>>
>>
>> Is any provision being made for a 2to3 fixer/otherwise-automated
>> transition for the changes you propose here?
>>
>
> As the deprecation is intended for 2.X and 3.X - is 2to3 fixer needed?

IMO some kind of automated transition tool is needed -- anyone who has
the time to convert their codebase by hand (for some definition of "by
hand" that involves sed) doesn't have enough to do.

Collin