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Sun Nov 14 01:19:28 CET 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-November/105577.html

On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:06:55 +0100
Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:
> 
> The code is currently working. The question is if we have to drop the ANSI API 
> now, later or never.

If the code is currently working and isn't a security hole, then we
obviously don't "have to".
Apparently several developers "want to", which is different.

> It looks like the decision moves to "later" (deprecate in 
> 3.2, remove in 3.3). I still think that drop now doesn't really hurt.

If you drop code without first deprecating it, chances are it will
hurt someone.  That's why having a deprecation period is the rule we
usually follow (most of the time :-)).

Regards

Antoine.

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