I tried an example with PEP-562 but the autocomplete didn't work in Pycharm and still showed the deprecated function.
I agree we should have a deprecation warning before we should have changed it. How about we introduce a deprecation warning in the next version (1.10.10) ? Regards, Kaxil ᐧ On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 5:35 PM Jarek Potiuk <jarek.pot...@polidea.com> wrote: > I also started to use VSCode in parallel on my Chromebook as this is the > best way to get devenv running there (and I believe it's now THE most > popular IDE - including for Python developers). I can check it there as > well. > > On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 6:33 PM Jarek Potiuk <jarek.pot...@polidea.com> > wrote: > > > Right -> the same. Happy to double check with your POC :) > > > > On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 6:16 PM Ash Berlin-Taylor <a...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > > > > That's a very good point about IDE's, I'll double check how PyCharm > > behaves (Guessing PyCharm is the most popular one? PyCharm and IntelliJ > are > > the same engine under the hood, right?) > > > > > > -a > > > On Feb 22 2020, at 4:58 pm, Jarek Potiuk <jarek.pot...@polidea.com> > > wrote: > > > > > My proposal here: > > > > > Add in a _getattr_ based lazy import for DAG to airflow/__init__.py > > module > > > > > > > > > > > > I am all for it - if we can do it in this way, then it is indeed > > > > better for the users. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Do NOT issue a deprecation warning for this. > > > > > Revert the change to all the imports in example dags etc so that > > those do from airflow import DAG. > > > > I would only be for it if the PEP-562 change works fine with IDE > > > > support. Many of our users use IDEs to write their DAGsand they can > > > > get confused where to import the DAGs from. If the PEP-562 works fine > > > > with the IDEs, and they are smart enough to figure this out, I am ok > > > > with that. > > > > > > > > On a related note - I fully agree with the "clear API" approach for > > > > DAG developers. We did not have clear rules for that so far. > > > > Eventually (I think 2.0 is good time for that) we should have a clear > > > > statement what really the API is for DAG writers. We should issue at > > > > first a deprecation warning and then error if someone tries to use > > > > something not explicitly allowed from the DAG. It should not be a > > > > convention ("from airflow.* is allowed in documentation"). It should > > > > be enforcement. We can do it in scheduler - as we are parsing the > DAGs > > > > on our own and we can find out what imports the users are using. We > > > > could even think about adding those deprecations in 2.0. There are > not > > > > that many things that should be importable from 'airflow.*'. And that > > > > should be rather easy - I am playing now with AST parser and it is > > > > rather straightforward - we just need to generate list of "allowed" > > > > imports . > > > > > > > > > (I'm less worried about the internal API airflow users internally, > > so airflow.models.TaskInstance vs > airflow.models.task_instance.TaskInstance > > is okay for me. I find the later uglier but if it doesn't affect users I > > don't mind it) > > > > > Ash > > > > -- > > > > Jarek Potiuk > > > > Polidea | Principal Software Engineer > > > > > > > > M: +48 660 796 129 > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Jarek Potiuk > > Polidea | Principal Software Engineer > > > > M: +48 660 796 129 > > > > > -- > > Jarek Potiuk > Polidea <https://www.polidea.com/> | Principal Software Engineer > > M: +48 660 796 129 <+48660796129> > [image: Polidea] <https://www.polidea.com/> >