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[Python-Dev] cpython: Issue #13248: removed deprecated and undocumented difflib.isbjunk, isbpopular.

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Thu Mar 21 19:23:49 CET 2013 
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 01:19:42 -0400, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 3/20/2013 2:13 PM, R. David Murray wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 05:23:43 -0700, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> A mention in Misc/NEWS can't hurt here, Terry. Even though it's
> >> undocumented, some old code could rely on it being there and this code will
> >> break with the transition to 3.4
> 
> Will do.
> 
> > Note that we also have a list of deprecated things that were removed in
> > What's New.
> >
> > Aside: given the 3.3 experience, I think people should be thinking in
> > terms of always updating What's New when appropriate, at the time a
> > commit is made.
> 
> How does this look? Is ``replacement`` right? Should the subsequent sm 
> by itself be marked? If so, how?
> 
> * :meth:`difflib.SequenceMatcher.isbjunk` and
>    :meth:`difflib.SequenceMatcher.isbpopular`: use ``x in sm.bjunk`` and
>    ``x in sm.bpopular``, where sm is a SequenceMatcher object.

Looks fine to me.  A link on SequenceMatcher probably isn't necessary,
but might be handy.  If you want to add it it would be
:class:`~difflib.SequenceMatcher`.

--David
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