On 09:25 pm, br...@python.org wrote:
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 13:03,  <exar...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
On 07:58 pm, br...@python.org wrote:

I don't think a strict don't remove without deprecation policy is
workable. �For example, is trace.rx_blank constant part of the trace
module API that needs to be preserved indefinitely?  I don't even know
if it is possible to add a deprecation warning to it, but
CoverageResults._blank_re would certainly be a better place for it.

The deprecation policy obviously cannot apply to module-level attributes.

I'm not sure why this is. �Can you elaborate?

There is no way to directly trigger a DeprecationWarning for an
attribute. We can still document it, but there is just no way to
programmatically enforce it.

What about `deprecatedModuleAttribute` (<http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twisted.python.deprecate.html>) or zope.deprecation (<http://docs.zope.org/zope3/Book/deprecation/show.html>) which inspired it?

Jean-Paul
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