On 26 February 2015 at 08:03, Antoine Pitrou
On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 07:35:17 +1000 Nick Coghlan
wrote: It may also be worthwhile introducing a "-Wmain" shorthand for "-Wdefault:::__main__", as I could see that being quite useful to system administrators, data analysts, et al, that want to know about deprecation warnings in their own custom scripts, but don't really care about deprecations in support libraries.
-1. This is making the "main script" special while code factored out in another module won't benefit. Furthermore there hasn't been any demand for this.
Yes there has, at the Linux distro level. I just haven't escalated it upstream because I didn't think there was anything useful we could do about it given the previous decision to default to silencing deprecation warnings by default outside testing frameworks. The key problem with the status quo from my perspective is that sysadmins currently don't get any warning that their scripts might have problems when Fedora next upgrades to a new version of Python, because they're not getting the deprecation warnings by default. Given a -Wmain option upstream, I'd likely try to make the case for that as the default behaviour of the distro system Python, but without "enable all warnings for __main__" at least being a readily available behaviour in the reference interpreter, it's arguably too much of a divergence (since we'd be defining the new behaviour ourselves, rather than selecting a different upstream behaviour as the default) Regards, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia