[TINKERPOP-2382] Review and improve driver API for Python

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.5.0
• Component/s: python
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Stephen Mallette
• Created: 09/Jun/20 18:42
• Updated: 21/Oct/20 15:35

Description

We continually added to the driver API for python without much thought as to how it is structured. For example, we recently added kerberos support by just adding another keyword argument:

https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/pull/1290/files#diff-7221fd838d81694769a9fc4f35d3053eR32

It would be nice to look at the ever expanding list of keywords there and improve/streamline the API a bit while we have a chance at breaking change for 3.5.0.