During the moratorium PEP discussions Guido said he wanted to quiet down deprecation warnings. I see there being two options on this.
One is to keep things as is, but to require two releases with PendingDeprecationWarning so there are three years of silent-by-default warnings to update your code. But that last release before removal came would still be noisy. The other option is to simply have all warnings filtered out by default. We could alter -W so that when it is used w/o an argument it turns to what is currently the default behaviour (or even turn all warnings which is more than what happens now). This will require that people proactively check for warnings when updating for compatibility, else they will eventually use a Python release where there code will simply break because something changed. This route means we do not have to specify any deprecation policy right now (that would be a separate discussion). Channeling Guido he is after the latter, but a general discussion would still be good since he didn't explicitly say what he was after other than to quiet down warnings. -Brett _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list stdlib-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
