Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecation warnings in Python 2.7

2010-03-03 Thread Florent Xicluna
2010/3/3 Florent Xicluna : > u'\xff' == bytearray('\xff')    # It should raise an error because of '-bb' > __main__:1: BytesWarning: Comparison between bytearray and string > False u'\xff' == '\xff' > __main__:1: UnicodeWarning: Unicode equal comparison failed to convert > both arguments

Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecation warnings in Python 2.7

2010-03-03 Thread Florent Xicluna
2010/3/3 Raymond Hettinger : > > -1 for several reasons. > 1) We've advertised -3 as part of TheOneTrueWay(tm).  It's a core part of > our transition story, so we should keep that as clean/consistent as > possible.  Deprecating the -3 switch seems like shooting ourselves in the > foot. Instead of

Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecation warnings in Python 2.7

2010-03-03 Thread Nick Coghlan
Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Le Tue, 2 Mar 2010 17:28:11 -0800, > Raymond Hettinger a écrit : >> -1 for several reasons. >> >> 1) We've advertised -3 as part of TheOneTrueWay(tm). It's a core >> part of our transition story, so we should keep that as >> clean/consistent as possible. Deprecating the

Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecation warnings in Python 2.7

2010-03-02 Thread Benjamin Peterson
2010/3/2 Antoine Pitrou : > Le Tue, 2 Mar 2010 17:28:11 -0800, > Raymond Hettinger a écrit : >> -1 for several reasons. >> >> 1) We've advertised -3 as part of TheOneTrueWay(tm).  It's a core >> part of our transition story, so we should keep that as >> clean/consistent as possible.  Deprecating t

Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecation warnings in Python 2.7

2010-03-02 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Le Tue, 2 Mar 2010 17:28:11 -0800, Raymond Hettinger a écrit : > -1 for several reasons. > > 1) We've advertised -3 as part of TheOneTrueWay(tm). It's a core > part of our transition story, so we should keep that as > clean/consistent as possible. Deprecating the -3 switch seems like > shooti

Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecation warnings in Python 2.7

2010-03-02 Thread Raymond Hettinger
> > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 15:55, Florent Xicluna > wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to open a discussion on the meaning of deprecation warnings in > 2.7. > I assume, but I may be wrong, that 2.7 will be the last version in the 2.x > branch. With this assumption, we should not find many thin

Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecation warnings in Python 2.7

2010-03-02 Thread Brett Cannon
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 15:55, Florent Xicluna wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to open a discussion on the meaning of deprecation warnings in > 2.7. > I assume, but I may be wrong, that 2.7 will be the last version in the 2.x > branch. With this assumption, we should not find many things deprecat

Re: [Python-Dev] Deprecation warnings in Python 2.7

2010-03-02 Thread Florent XICLUNA
2010/3/3 Florent Xicluna wrote: > > I will post a list of the DeprecationWarnings in the python trunk, in a > followup message, for a review, and to help the discussion. > Here is the list of the "Classic" DeprecationWarnings: http://paste.pocoo.org/show/184931/ And the list of the "Py3k" Depreca

[Python-Dev] Deprecation warnings in Python 2.7

2010-03-02 Thread Florent Xicluna
Hello, I would like to open a discussion on the meaning of deprecation warnings in 2.7. I assume, but I may be wrong, that 2.7 will be the last version in the 2.x branch. With this assumption, we should not find many things deprecated in 2.7 final. On the other hand, the list of py3k deprecation