[Zope-dev] Re: Removing whrandom in Zope 2.9 (was Re: New testrunner on the Zope 2 trunk.)

[Jim Fulton]

Cool, thanks!

Jim

Tres Seaver wrote:
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>>>FWIW:
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>>Alot. :)
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>>>$ pwd
>>>/home/tseaver/projects/Zope-CVS/Zope-2_8-branch
>>>$ find . -name "*.py" | grep -v "build-base" | xargs grep -l whrandom
>>>./lib/python/AccessControl/DTML.py
>>>./lib/python/Products/PythonScripts/help/PythonScript.py
>>>./lib/python/Products/ZCatalog/regressiontests/regressionCatalog.py
>>>./lib/python/Products/ZCatalog/regressiontests/loadmail.py
>>>./lib/python/RestrictedPython/Utilities.py
>>>./lib/python/DocumentTemplate/DT_Util.py
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>>>./lib/python/zope/security/examples/sandbox.py
>>>./lib/python/zope/security/examples/sandbox_security.py
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>>Sigh.
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>>>Hmm, I see that RestrictedPython/Utilities.py on the Z3 trunk aliases
>>>'random' as 'whrandom' -- could we use that strategy for 2.8 etc.?
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>>Yes.  random has the same documented functions and signatures as whrandon.
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>>>We could remove them for 2.9, I guess, and just make people fix their
>>>applications.
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>>I suggest we make aliases and generate deprecation warnings if
>>whrandom is used. (The later may be tricky, I realize.)
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>>Maybe for now, just make aliases and move on. :)
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>>Jim
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> I have aliased 'random' to 'whrandom' in AccessControl.DTML and
> RestrictedPython.Utilities on the 2.8 branch and the 2.9 branch, and
> added comments noting BBB to be removed in Zope 2.10.
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> I removed all mention of 'whrandom' the trunk.
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> Tres.
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