+1 remove it to match that policy. I find it unlikely someone will ask for it to be restored, but our first response before doing so should be to see if they can instead use it as a dependency via PyPI: Someone who wants to maintain it for future use can take 3.8 formatter module and put it there.
-gps On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 10:43 AM Andrew Svetlov <andrew.svet...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have no objections, the module raises the explicit deprecation > warning since 2013. > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 7:31 PM Victor Stinner <vstin...@python.org> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I proposed https://bugs.python.org/issue39352 to remove the formatter > > module. It's deprecated since Python 3.4. The main reason why it's > > still around is the PEP 4 rule: > > > > "In order to facilitate writing code that works in both Python 2 & 3 > > simultaneously, any module that exists in both Python 3.5 and Python > > 2.7 will not be removed from the standard library until Python 2.7 is > > no longer supported as specified by PEP 373." > > > > > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0004/#for-modules-existing-in-both-python-2-7-and-python-3-5 > > > > Python 2.7 is not longer supported. So can we now remove the formatter > module? > > > > The module has no test, I failed to find any user in a dummy GitHub > > code search and I didn't know that this module even existed. > > > > We can still revert the module before 3.9.0 final release if someone > > shows up and asks to keep it for one more cycle. > > > > My intent here is to reduce the size of the Python standard library to > > reduce the maintenance burden. Python became quite large and it's more > > and more expensive to maintain it. Wait... I'm not asking to remove > > all modules of the standard library :-) The decision must be taken on > > a case by case basis, for each module. Here I'm only taking about the > > formatter module. > > > > Victor > > -- > > Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. > > _______________________________________________ > > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/ESSRZXEJ7MWMGNZQKNDURGRWIZ5FQHKP/ > > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > > > > -- > Thanks, > Andrew Svetlov > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/BHCWXBTELE354DCELWADMOX6O6CJOJ2A/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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