Le Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:08:29 -0400,
Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> a écrit :
> >
> > You know, there may be one or two Python programmers who didn't go
> > to PyCon CA... :-)
> >
>
> Sure, but you would assume at least *one* person would have known of
> the module in a room of sprinters.
Not necessarily. There are specialized modules which may be of use to
only a certain category of people, and unknown to others.
> > Over on Python-Ideas mailing list, there are periodic frenzies of
> > requests to delete all sorts of things, e.g. a recent thread
> > debating deleting various string methods in favour of using {}
> > string formatting. My answer there is the same as my answer here:
> > unless the formatter module is actively harmful, then deprecation
> > risks causing more pain than benefit. All those thousands of coders
> > who don't use formatter? The benefit to them of deprecating it is
> > next to zero. That one guy in Uberwald you've never heard of who
> > does use it? It's going to cause him a lot of pain.
>
> That's fine, but this is also about me and every other core developer
> who stands behind every module in the stdlib as being as bug-free as
> possible and generally useful to warrant people learning about them.
> I'm saying I don't want to maintain it and have to clean up it's code
> every time there is a stdlib-wide cleanup or if there is ever a bug.
Not all of us have to maintain it :-) I'm not gonna maintain it either,
but that doesn't mean someone else won't step up.
Regards
Antoine.
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