On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Robert Kern <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 18:20, Wes McKinney <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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? > > The Python devs made DeprecationWarnings silent by default for a > reason. They unnecessarily annoy and frighten application end users > who don't know what they are, where they are coming from, or how to > silence them. The recommended practice is for library users (who do or > should know those things) to run their test suites with the warnings > turned on. > > -- > 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://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
You make a very convincing point-- makes complete sense. _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
