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[Python-Dev] Removing stuff from 2.4

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Sat Aug 7 23:27:05 CEST 2004 
On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 16:57, A.M. Kuchling wrote:
> Hunting for deprecated modules.
> 
> * Deprecated in 2.1: TERMIOS.py, whrandom.py.  
> * Deprecated in 2.2: mpz module, statcache module.  
> 
>   There are also various 2.2-deprecated methods in the email package;
>   Barry can decide if he wants to bother with them or not.

I'll probably remove those.  We're bumping the email package's own
version number to 3.

> My proposal: 
> * Remove TERMIOS, mpz, statcache, xreadlines, rotor.
> * Make rfc822 raise PendingDeprecationWarning (so nothing will happen in 2.4
>   unless you have -Wa)

+1

> * Make mimetools, mimify, Mimewrite raise DeprecationWarnings.  (This 
>   is the part I'm least sure about; comments from people who know about
>   these modules would be appreciated.  Should they raise Pending instead?)

DeprecationWarnings on mimify and MIMEWriter.  Not sure atm, what to do
about mimetools, but it's clearly destined for death.

-Barry

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