On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Pauli Virtanen <pav@iki.fi> wrote:

to, 2009-12-10 kello 10:18 -0600, Robert Kern kirjoitti:

> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 04:24, Pauli Virtanen <pav+sp@iki.fi> wrote:
> > Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:54:32 +0100, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
> > [clip]
> >> At this point I want to remind us about Charles Harris' very workable
> >> proposal: Raise a warning. That should both keep backward compatability
> >> and prevent people from wasting days. (Hopefully, we can avoid wasting
> >> days discussing this issue too :-) ).
> >
> > Yes. We can even make it a PendingDeprecationWarning, when we become
> > convinced that this feature should go away in entirety.
>
> PendingDeprecationWarnings are off by default, I think.

So it seems.

r7993 makes Numpy to raise a custom ComplexWarning when these things
occur. It's easy for the user to change that into an error or silence
it.

You need a small fixup to support python-2.4. For instance, the deprecation warning is implemented as:

#if PY_VERSION_HEX >= 0x02050000
#define DEPRECATE(msg) PyErr_WarnEx(PyExc_DeprecationWarning,msg,1)
#else
#define DEPRECATE(msg) PyErr_Warn(PyExc_DeprecationWarning,msg)
#endif

Thanks for settling this discussion ;)

Chuck