How to declare a module deprecated in python
You want to warn with a DeprecationWarning.
Exactly how you call it doesn't matter that much, but the stdlib has a standard pattern for deprecated modules, like this:
# doc string, top-level comments, imports, __all__ =import warningswarnings.warn("the spam module is deprecated", DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)# normal module codeSee the 2.7 sets source for an example.