[Python-markdown-discuss] Also Deprecating mdx_* extension names?

[Waylan L. <way...@ic...>]

While we're talking about deprecating things related to extensions, I would like to deprecate support for the `mdx_*` naming convention of third party extensions. I updated the docs [over a year ago][1] suggesting that this might happen. As we support passing in instances of extension classes and strings using dot notation, I don't see any reason to keep this around except that some existing third party exceptions still use it. Although, the ones that do appear to not be regularly maintained which suggests they are not too popular.

Any objections?

And while I have your attention, I have also considered deprecating the special treatment of the included extensions. In order words, one would need to do `extensions=['markdown.extensions.extra']` (which has worked for some time, btw) rather than `extensions=['extra']. However, I feel less strongly about this and I realize that this would require almost all our users to change their code upon updating. Perhaps it would be sufficient to change the docs so that any mention of the special treatment  is omitted (the docs would suggest that all 'named extensions' would use dot notation). Any thoughts?
Waylan Limberg

[1]: https://github.com/waylan/Python-Markdown/commit/8aa2fc7b5138fd97ded7dd1e70103532a9fd6583