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Author	eric.araujo
Recipients	brett.cannon, eric.araujo, fdrake, georg.brandl, lukasz.langa, michael.foord, r.david.murray, rhettinger, till
Date	2010年08月03日.11:06:49
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Message-id	<1280833610.78.0.538188611727.issue6517@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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If ConfigParser is not documented first, the name "SafeConfigParser" becomes strange—safe compared to what? These names have an historical motivation and could become clearer if renamed, but I don’t know if python-dev will agree with this deprecation. Renaming a class to an existing name with different behavior can be bad. FTR, in my head RawConfigParser is the config parser, and SafeConfigParser is another thing that I’ll maybe use one day.

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If ConfigParser is not documented first, the name "SafeConfigParser" becomes strange—safe compared to what? These names have an historical motivation and could become clearer if renamed, but I don’t know if python-dev will agree with this deprecation. Renaming a class to an existing name with different behavior can be bad.
FTR, in my head RawConfigParser is the config parser, and SafeConfigParser is another thing that I’ll maybe use one day.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2010年08月03日 11:06:50	eric.araujo	set	recipients: + eric.araujo, fdrake, brett.cannon, georg.brandl, rhettinger, r.david.murray, michael.foord, till, lukasz.langa
2010年08月03日 11:06:50	eric.araujo	set	messageid: <1280833610.78.0.538188611727.issue6517@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2010年08月03日 11:06:49	eric.araujo	link	issue6517 messages
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