On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:50 AM, geremy condra <debat...@gmail.com> wrote: >> If you're so worried about the warnings, suppress them. You control the code. > > No. The nuisance of warnings is that they are presented to the *user*, > not the developer, and the user (in many cases) doesn't control the > code. > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) >
In this case, however, he does, as per his comment: "A significant part of the code I write are command-line tools for system administrators. When they see the deprecation warnings they ignore them at best, and at worst get the impression that Python sucks because of these (to them) annoying messages.". Geremy Condra _______________________________________________ stdlib-sig mailing list stdlib-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/stdlib-sig
