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Python 3.15 release manager Hugo van Kemenade described soft deprecation, where APIs are marked as not to be used for new code without any plan to remove them.
Written by AI from Simon Willison's Weblog's published text.
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“Soft-deprecating re.match() Python has a concept of soft deprecation , where APIs are marked as "should no longer be used to write new code" without any promise/threat to remove them in the future.”
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