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Sun May 11 08:58:26 CEST 2008 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2008-May/079310.html

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:38 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> I see three solutions for dealing with this.
>
> 1. Have stubs for the entire urllib API in urllib.__init__ that raise
> a DeprecationWarning either specifying the new name or saying the
> function/class is deprecated.
>
> 2. Rename urllib to urllib.fetch or urllib.old_request to get people
> to move over to urllib.request (aka urllib2) at some point.
>

I am probably missing something, because I don't see how this solution
would solve the problem. The warning in urllib.__init__ will still be
issued when people will import urllib.fetch (or urllib.fetch).

-- Alexandre

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