David Huard wrote:
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Jarrod Millman <millman@berkeley.edu <mailto:millman@berkeley.edu>> wrote:
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Question: Should histogram raise a warning by default (new=True) to warn users that the behaviour has changed ? Or warn only if new=False to remind that the old behaviour will be deprecated in 1.3 ? I think that users will prefer being annoyed at warnings than surprised by an unexpected change, but repeated warnings can become a nuisance.
To minimize annoyance, we could also offer three possibilities:
new=None (default) : Equivalent to True, print warning about change. new=True : Don't print warning. new=False : Print warning about future deprecation.
So those who have already set new=True don't get warnings, and all others are warned. Feedback ?
As a regular user of histogram I say: please warn! Your proposal above seems OK to me. I do have histogram in a lot of kind of old (and sometimes long-running) code of mine, and I certainly would prefer to be warned. Vincent.