Ezio Melotti <ezio.melo...@gmail.com> added the comment:

I think it's better to avoid "deprecations by missing documentation" and 
document explicitly if something is deprecated.
What happens is that people working on some old code find the deprecated 
method, check the doc to see what it does, don't find anything, get puzzled for 
a while until they figure out how it works, and then use it.
If they find it and see that is deprecated they will stop using it and start 
using the right method.
While it's true that new users don't need to know that there's a deprecated 
method, it's unlikely that they will start using it, so documenting deprecated 
methods makes more good than harm.
If you want to remove it eventually you'll also have to go through an actual 
deprecation process with warnings.

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nosy: +ezio.melotti
resolution: invalid -> 
stage:  -> needs patch
versions: +Python 3.2

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