Great, sounds like we have a plan: https://bugs.python.org/issue29137
On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 8:21 AM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > I am happy to see it go. It was contributed many, many years ago by people > (scientists from the early numpy world IIRC) who had a very specific use for > it, but weren't really into maintaining it long-term, and I wasn't strong > enough to refuse a well-meaning but poorly executed contribution at the time > -- so we compromised on having the whole thing enabled through `#ifdef`. > Clearly it started rotting the day I committed the code... > > On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 4:22 AM, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 2 January 2017 at 18:27, Nathaniel Smith <n...@pobox.com> wrote: >>> >>> So I guess that yeah, my suggestion would be to drop this feature >>> entirely in 3.7, given that it's never been enabled by default and has >>> been largely broken for years. Or do we still need a full deprecation >>> cycle? >> >> >> I think the existing warning in the docs and the fact it's apparently been >> fundamentally broken for years is sufficient justification for just dropping >> it entirely. An explicit deprecation warning could be added in 3.6.1 and a >> Py3k warning in 2.7.x, though - those changes shouldn't be difficult, and >> it's a nice courtesy for anyone that *is* somehow currently getting it to >> work. >> >> Cheers, >> Nick. >> >> -- >> Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-Dev mailing list >> Python-Dev@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >> Unsubscribe: >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org >> > > > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
