Berker Peksag added the comment: I think the current consensus is to keep old APIs around to make porting from Python 2 easier. That's why I opened issue 26041.
See also msg256111 and "Deprecation policy PEP" proposed at https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-committers/2016-January/003706.html If Marc-Andre (platform module maintainer) and Ned give their +1s, I don't have a strong objection against the removal of the function. Also, it looks like I forgot to remove deprecated-removed directive in 5d9f961edc30: https://docs.python.org/3.6/library/platform.html#platform.linux_distribution ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue28167> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
