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Mon Dec 13 14:48:36 CET 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-December/050404.html

Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> As for PEP 4: I don't know whether it needs to be listed there. It
> appears that the PEP is largely unmaintained (I, personally, do not
> really maintain it). So one option would be to just stop using PEP 4
> for recording deprecations, since we now have the warnings module.
> If we want to keep PEP 4, we need to follow the procedures it
> requires (or modify them if we don't like them).

There is a need for a central place where deprecations are
posted. You can't tell people to go hunt the standard lib
for uses of the warning module in order for them to catch
up with the current state of affairs.

One thing that we shouldn't forget is that Python users
do not necessarily upgrade to new Python releases every time
there's a new release.

Production users of Python will often skip a release
or two depending on their needs, time frames and audit
cycles. It is very important for them to know that module
or other technology will be deprecated two releases down
the road, so that they can accomodate for these changes
today.

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