[Pythonmac-SIG] appscript raises deprecation warning for macerrors

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 10-jul-2005, at 22:22, has wrote:

> Brad Allen wrote:
>
>
>> I just started using appscript for the first time (it's great!),  
>> and ran across this deprecation warning when I import appscript.  
>> It looks like the problem is not with appscript itself but with  
>> the macerrors module that it utilizes. I'm using appscript with  
>> Tiger's built-in Python, because that's what the appscript  
>> installer defaults to using.
>>
>
> Yep, it's Apple's Python that's the problem; I had another report  
> of this just this morning. Not sure what the best way to deal with  
> it is. I hate having to kludge around other folks' goof-ups (I've  
> enough of my own to deal with), but since it's not really practical  
> to patch Apple's Python I reckon I'll either have to get rid of the  
> macerrors dependency, supply my own copy of macerrors.py, or try to  
> squelch that particular warning with a filter. Anyone any thoughts?

I'd surpress the warning by surpressing DepricationWarning during the  
import of macerrors. Then work on a patch for Python (probably bgen)  
to make sure that future versions (2.4.2 and 2.5) no longer give the  
warning when importing macerrors.

BTW. It is not "Apple's Python" that has a problem, the problem is a  
generic python bug. Python 2.4 has the same problem, you might not  
see it if the .py files we're byte-compiled during installation  
because the warning is only emited during byte compilation.

Ronald