[Python-Dev] deprecated stuff in standard library

Eric Smith eric at trueblade.com
Fri Feb 19 14:45:54 CET 2010


Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
> On 2010-02-19 14:10, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> Isn't mhlib itself deprecated? (It's gone in Py3k.)
> 
> I wouldn't like that, but it is beside my point.  If a module is
> deprecated, then it should not be used in released code.
> If mhlib is deprecated, it doesn't tell you about it.  mhlib uses
> multifile and multifile does tell you it is deprecated, and that is
> pretty annoying.

This is because no one has gotten around to it. Create a bug report for 
it, and preferably attach a patch with tests.

Eric.



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