<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Ben Finney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben%2Bpython@benfinney.id.au" target="_blank">ben+python@benfinney.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>Guido van Rossum <<a href="mailto:guido@python.org" target="_blank">guido@python.org</a>> writes:<br>
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> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Michael Foord <<a href="mailto:michael@voidspace.org.uk" target="_blank">michael@voidspace.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> > Almost no-one is ever going to run Python with PendingDeprecation<br>
> > warnings switched on, so there should be at least one 'noisy'<br>
> > release in my opinion.<br>
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> I disagree. [snip] </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For me back then, python would have just magically broken on a random day.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>--yuv</div></div></div>