On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:40, Georg Brandl <g.bra...@gmx.net> wrote: > Brett Cannon schrieb: >> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 16:53, Georg Brandl <g.bra...@gmx.net> wrote: >>> Brett Cannon schrieb: >>>> 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). >>> >>> As a technical note, optional option arguments are a bad idea. >>> >>> python -W ignore >>> >>> Am I calling the file "ignore" with all warnings enabled or running the >>> interactive interpreter ignoring all warnings? >> >> You are calling the file called "ignore"; the argument to -W must >> contain colons to be valid. > > It doesn't need to now; and IMO that is quite helpful, since it allows e.g. a > very short -Wi argument without me having to remember just how many colons > I have to put there. > > And even if that change is deemed to be fine, why shouldn't I have colons in > my filename? Special cases are not special enough... ;)
OK, fine, I didn't think it through very much when I proposed -W. We can add -w for the same purpose. -Brett _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list stdlib-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
