Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >Le samedi 28 janvier 2012 à 10:46 -0800, Mike Meyer a écrit : >> Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: >> >You will see people copying recipes found on the internet without >> >knowing that they rely on unstable APIs. >> >> How. About doing them the way we do depreciated modules, and have >them >> spit warnings to stderr? Maybe add a flag and environment variable >to >> disable that. > >You're proposing that new experimental modules spit warnings when you >use them?
To be explicit, when the system loada them. > I don't think that's a good way of promoting their use :) And importing something from __preview__or __experimental__or whatever won't? This thread did include the suggestion that they go into their final location instead of a magic module. >(something we do want to do even though we also want to convey the idea >that they're not yet "stable" or "fully approved") Doing it with a message pointing at the page describing the status makes sure users read the docs before using them. That solves the problem of using them without realizing it. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ 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
