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[Python-Dev] Removing stuff from 2.4

Tim Peters tim.peters at gmail.com
Sat Aug 7 23:42:07 CEST 2004 
[Andrew]
>> I don't know what to do about whrandom, if anything; remove it?  Leave
>> it for 2.5?  suggestions?

[Raymond]
> From PEP4:  "#This module has been documented as obsolete since
>                   Python 2.1, but listing in this PEP was neglected.
>                   The deprecation warning will be added to the module
>                   one year after Python 2.3 is released, and the
>                   module will be removed one year after that."
>
> Though the module is useless, I think we have to follow the PEP.

whrandom should definitely get a DeprecationWarning for 2.4.  2.3
final was released in July of 2003, and it's already a year after.
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