Hi,

Thank you so much Wim for helping with this cleanup.

As commented in the PR I am +1 for this exceptions.

Cheers,
Adi

On 6 March 2018 at 20:20, Wim Lewis <w...@omnigroup.com> wrote:
> In PR 949 ("Remove “terrible hack” in 
> t.c.ssh.filetransfer.FileTransferClient", trac bug 9362) I'm removing an 
> attribute of FileTransferClient which I'm pretty sure was never intended to 
> be public. Adi Roiban points out that this is technically a 
> compatibility-breaking change, though, and so it needs more public review.
>
> My reasoning for thinking that this will not break any user code: the 
> attribute, although not prefixed with an underscore, was undocumented; anyone 
> relying on it would have had to read the source code to discover what it 
> does, and in the source it was commented as a "TERRIBLE HACK". I'd hope this 
> would be enough of a warning. (Also, I can't think of a use for it.)
>
> trac: https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/9362
> pr: https://github.com/twisted/twisted/pull/949
>
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