On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 5:01 AM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 1:57 PM, David Warde-Farley > <warde...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: > > > > On 2011-03-12, at 9:32 PM, Charles R Harris wrote: > > > >> I'd like to change the polynomial package to only import the Classes, > leaving the large number of implementation functions to be imported directly > from the different modules if needed. I always regarded those functions as > implementation helpers and kept them separate from the class so that others > could use them to build their own classes if they desired. For most purposes > I think the classes are more useful. So I think it was a mistake to import > the functions by; default and I'm looking for a graceful and acceptable way > out. Any suggestions. > > How about just deprecating in 1.6 and removing from the polynomial > namespace in 2.0? Then you do need to add to the docs explicitly that > the submodules contain these functions, that they are part of the > public API and are not going anywhere. > > Is there a clever way to deprecate the functions only in that namespace? I wrote a script that writes a lot of dummy functions that call the original with a deprecation message, but I'd sure welcome a cleaner way to do things. <snip> Chuck
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