On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au<ben%2bpyt...@benfinney.id.au> > wrote:
> Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> writes: > > > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Michael Foord <mich...@voidspace.org.uk> > wrote: > > > Almost no-one is ever going to run Python with PendingDeprecation > > > warnings switched on, so there should be at least one 'noisy' > > > release in my opinion. > > > > I disagree. [snip] > I learned python from an old book that taught me to raise string exceptions, noisy warnings about deprecation were the only thing that tipped me off that something's wrong. As a newb I would have never executed python with any option at all, no way I would have had enough mileage to hear about such a thing. For me back then, python would have just magically broken on a random day. --yuv
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