[stdlib-sig] Changing the 2.6 renames to not break pickle

[Brett Cannon]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
> From: "Brett Cannon" <brett at python.org>
>>
>> So, here is my idea (only need to care about modules that have stuff
>> to pickle, e.g., don't need to change test.support):
>>
>> * Rename lib-old to lib-new
>>
>> * Change the names in lib-new to the new names.
>>
>> * Change the names in the stdlib to the old names.
>>
>> * Move the Py3K warnings out of the stubs in lib-new and put them in
>> the modules directly stored in the stdlib.
>>
>> * Change the imports in the stubs in lib-new to import the old name
>> and suppress the Py3K warning (probably use
>> test.support.catch_warning() with a *very* specific ignore filter).
>
> That plan seems harmless enough, but why bother?

Same reason given on python-dev when you asked this question before.
=) 2.6 is supposed to minimize the differences between 2.x and 3.0 as
much as possible without having to run 2to3. Plus I don't want to have
to change imports in patches between 2.6 and 3.0 if I don't have to.

-Brett