[Python-Dev] Deprecating "instance method" class

[Brett Cannon]

On Fri, Apr 5, 2019 at 1:11 PM Jeroen Demeyer <J.Demeyer at ugent.be> wrote:

> On 2019-04-05 21:58, Brett Cannon wrote:
> > Then we can consider improving the documentation if there are
> > performance implications.
>
> Sure, we could write in the docs something like "Don't use this, this is
> not what you want. It's slow and there are better alternatives like
> method descriptors". Should I do that (with better wording of course)?
>

Up to you. Obviously help is always  appreciated, just a question of who
feels qualified to review the PR.


>
> > since we don't have nearly as good of a deprecation setup as we
> > do in Python code.
>
> I don't get this. One can easily raise a DeprecationWarning from C code,
> there is plenty of code already doing that.
>

True. I personally prefer compile-time warnings for that sort of thing, but
you're right we can do it at the Python "level" with a raise of a
DeprecationWarning on those instances.
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