On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Ralf Gommers <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:45 PM, Skipper Seabold <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Charles R Harris >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Should skiprows be removed? >>> >>> if skiprows: >>> warnings.warn(\ >>> "The use of `skiprows` is deprecated, it will be removed in >>> numpy 2.0.\n" \ >>> "Please use `skip_header` instead.", >>> DeprecationWarning) >>> skip_header = skiprows >>> >>> Its been deprecated since 1.4. Personally, I like skiprows better than >>> skip_header ;) >>> >> >> +1 for skiprows. I always have to look it up. > > To me one is not much better than the other, but -1 for skiprows > because un-deprecating it and deprecating skip_header is inconsistent > and annoying for users. > > Ralf > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
FYI: http://docs.python.org/library/warnings.html "DeprecationWarning Base category for warnings about deprecated features (ignored by default)." Maybe DeprecationWarnings should be changed to something that isn't ignored by default so users see it? _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
