regret 2024.2.2
You made a thing, but now you wish it'd go away... Deprecations, a love story.
Requires Python: >=3.8
Keywords: deprecation,deprecations,maintenance,regret,tooling

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``regret`` is a library for deprecating functionality in Python
libraries and applications.

Its documentation lives on `Read the Docs
<https://regret.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>`_.


Deprecations
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``regret`` can deprecate:

    - [x] callables
        - [x] functions
        - [x] classes
            - [ ] subclassable classes
    - [ ] attributes
        - [ ] of modules
        - [ ] of classes (& methods)
        - [ ] of instances
    - [ ] descriptors
        - [ ] classmethod
    - [ ] modules
        - [ ] current module
        - [ ] other module
    - [ ] parameters to callables
        - [x] previously required parameters that will be removed
        - [x] optional parameters that are now required
        - [ ] deprecated values for parameters
        - [ ] type changes for parameters
        - [ ] mutual exclusion
    - [ ] interfaces
        - [ ] PEP 544 protocols
        - [ ] ``zope.interface``\s
    - [x] inheritability of a class


Design Goals
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``regret`` is meant to cover all of the deprecations an author may encounter.

It is intended to:

    * be versioning system agnostic (i.e. `SemVer
      <https://semver.org/>`_, `CalVer <https://calver.org/>`_, `HipsTer
      <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(contemporary_subculture)>`_,
      etc.), because deprecations originate from a version, a point in
      time, or both.

    * be documentation system aware (i.e. `Sphinx
      <https://www.sphinx-doc.org>`_, `epydoc
      <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epydoc>`_, `Plaintext
      <https://www.google.com/search?q=use+sphinx>`_, etc.), because
      deprecations need communication.

    * be itself fully tested, because deprecations must not break the
      code they deprecate

    * support removal date indication, and likely "policies" which
      automate choosing default removal dates, because deprecations
      ultimately intend some ultimate change

    * make "clean code" trivially easy to deprecate, and make complex
      code *possible* to deprecate, because the deprecation process is
      fraught with edge cases and unforeseen necessity.

    * minimize the amount of deprecation-related code required for
      authors, since deprecations are boring, and we all want to focus on
      developing our libraries instead.

In particular, as a lofty first milestone, it is intended to cover all
of the specific deprecations required for these `jsonschema issues
<https://github.com/Julian/jsonschema/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=label%3A%22Pending+Deprecation%22>`_,
and with luck, to subsume all the functionality present in
`twisted.python.deprecate <https://docs.twistedmatrix.com/en/stable/api/twisted.python.deprecate.html>`_.