Yes. What Steve says at the end. Let's be kind and mention this one on the release notes. But not all the others.
On Tue, May 29, 2018, 07:57 Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 05:37:06PM +0300, Serhiy Storchaka wrote: > > > We have removed over 100 module attributes in 3.6 [2] and over 200 > > module attributes in 3.7 [3]. > > > > Some of these removals broke third-part projects [4], even removals of > > underscored names. > > Yes, people will rely on undocumented features. Even when you tell them > not to. > > > If we will document the removal of os.errno, we > > should to document the removal of at least other names for which there > > are known examples of breaking third-party projects, e.g. > > re._pattern_type, uuid._uuid_generate_time and several typing attributes. > > I disagree. I think that _leading underscore names can be removed > without mentioning the removal. If it breaks code, too bad. Anyone using > an explicitly named _private name has only themselves to blame. > > But non-public names *without* a leading underscore are in a grey area, > since they *look* like public names. > > I think we can afford to be kind by documenting such removals -- > especially since it may help to educate people that imported modules > without a leading underscore are still considered implementation > details. > > > -- > Steve > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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