On Feb 13, 2012, at 8:44 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Eli Bendersky <eli...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> With the deprecation warning being silent, is there much to lose, though?
>
> Yes, it creates problems for anyone that deliberately converts all
> warnings to errors when running their test suites. This forces them to
> spend time switching over to a Python version dependent import of
> either cElementTree or ElementTree that could have been spent doing
> something actually productive instead of mere busywork.
>
> And, of course, even people that *don't* convert warnings to errors
> when running tests will have to make the same switch when the module
> is eventually removed.
What about a PendingDeprecationWarning? I think you're usually only going to
convert DeprecationWarnings to errors (with python -W error::DeprecationWarning
or warnings.simplefilter('error', DeprecationWarning))
--
Philip Jenvey
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