Add deprecated private interface into parser

1 files changed, 48 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/dateutil/parser/__init__.py b/dateutil/parser/__init__.py
index 56783d1..2d6b1a3 100644
--- a/dateutil/parser/__init__.py
+++ b/dateutil/parser/__init__.py
@@ -5,3 +5,51 @@ from ._parser import InvalidDateError, InvalidDatetimeError, InvalidTimeError
 
 __all__ = ['parse', 'parser', 'parserinfo',
            'InvalidDatetimeError', 'InvalidDateError', 'InvalidTimeError']
+
+
+###
+# Deprecate portions of the private interface so that downstream code that
+# is improperly relying on it is given *some* notice.
+
+
+def __deprecated_private_func(f):
+    from functools import wraps
+    import warnings
+
+    msg = ('{name} is a private function and may break without warning, '
+           'it will be moved and or renamed in future versions.')
+    msg = msg.format(name=f.__name__)
+
+    @wraps(f)
+    def deprecated_func(*args, **kwargs):
+        warnings.warn(msg, DeprecationWarning)
+        return f(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    return deprecated_func
+
+def __deprecate_private_class(c):
+    import warnings
+
+    msg = ('{name} is a private class and may break without warning, '
+           'it will be moved and or renamed in future versions.')
+    msg = msg.format(name=c.__name__)
+
+    class private_class(c):
+        __doc__ = c.__doc__
+
+        def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+            warnings.warn(msg, DeprecationWarning)
+            super(private_class, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    private_class.__name__ = c.__name__
+
+    return private_class
+
+
+from ._parser import _timelex, _resultbase
+from ._parser import _tzparser, _parsetz
+
+_timelex = __deprecate_private_class(_timelex)
+_tzparser = __deprecate_private_class(_tzparser)
+_resultbase = __deprecate_private_class(_resultbase)
+_parsetz = __deprecated_private_func(_parsetz)