7 Aug
2019
7 Aug
'19
12:14 a.m.
On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 10:03 AM Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
- Keep the SyntaxWarning silent by default for 3.8. That gives us another year or more to gently pressure third-party libraries to fix their code, and to find ways to encourage developers to run with warnings enabled.
How do you propose to apply this pressure? How about: whenever a third-party library uses a potentially-wrong escape sequence, it creates a message on the console. Then when someone sees that message, they can post a bug report against the package. In other words, a non-silent warning. ChrisA