On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 01:29, David Cournapeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was thinking about adding a versioning into the deprecation > related functions. E.g., you could say that one function is deprecated > in version 1.2, but adding a in_version in deprecate. Does anyone have > strong feeling against it ?
As long as we keep the policy that DeprecationWarnings last precisely one minor version, I don't think it really adds any information. > It should be a transparant change. I would > also like to add a deprecation function to handle arguments and default > values, but this will be more work, obviously. It will be hard to write something generic. The individual functions will still have to write code that handles the old arguments anyways, so all it would do is move the warning message from a warnings.warn() into the decorator. It's not worth it. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
