Backward Compatibility

attrs has a very strong backward compatibility policy that is inspired by the one of the Twisted framework.

Put simply, you shouldn’t ever be afraid to upgrade attrs if you’re using its public APIs. If there will ever be need to break compatibility, it will be announced in the Changelog, raise deprecation warning for a year before it’s finally really broken.

Warning

The structure of the attr.Attribute class is exempted from this rule. It will change in the future since it should be considered read-only, that shouldn’t matter.

However if you intend to build extensions on top of attrs you have to anticipate that.