On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > It strikes me that in general deprecation warnings in 2.7 don't do > anybody any good unless they're Py3k warnings. It sounds to me that > there is no shame in removing the warning in Python 2.7 (or turning it > into a Py3k warning -- nobody should expect their code to behave well > when Py3k warnings are turned into errors). My guess is that the > warning was added to 2.7 before it was clear that there would never be > a 2.8. > > At the same time I don't want to go so far as to remove all remaining > deprecation warnings from 2.7.1 (too much churn) -- but for this > specific one it sounds like a reasonable compromise.
Converting to a Py3k warning sounds like the best option. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
