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Hi, I would like to specify clearly a new “soft deprecation” status in PEP 387: Backwards Compatibility Policy for functions which should be avoided for new code since these functions will not be developed further, but …

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Hi, I would like to specify clearly a new “soft deprecation” status in PEP 387: Backwards Compatibility Policy for functions which should be avoided for new code since these functions will not be developed further, but it’s ok to keep them in old code since their removal is not scheduled. Over the least years, whenever I saw anything marked as deprecated for at least 2 Python releases, I eaggerly removed it as soon as possible. In Python 3.13, I started to dig deeper and found many “inactive” ...

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