(sorry, my NUA had lost the original article)
>
>> I'm curious -- what is everyone's favorite trick from a non-python
>> language? And -- why isn't it in Python?
Ability to tag some methods 'deprecated' as in Java (from 1.5
onwards?). However, Python interpreter doesn't have to do it: pydoc and
similar tools could detect, say, '@deprecated' in method comment string and
warn user about it.
Currently I just document deprecated methods, and if I feel like it, I also
add
def some_method_which_is_badly_named_or_just_plain_wrong(..)
"""docstring
This method is now deprecated. Use frob() instead.
"""
sys.stderr.write('warning: method
some_method_which_is_badly_named_or_just_plain_wrong is now deprecated')
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You shouldn't verb verbs.
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