On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> wrote:
Because casual programmers are not motivated to go after Deprecation Warnings [ snip ] So lots of DeprecationWarnings will only train them to ignore DeprecationWarnings, or all Warnings.
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This isn't just about casual programmers, everybody who uses python on a daily basis for just interpreter stuff, are they supposed to change their interpreter shortcut to have the warnings option just to stay up to date ? Not everyone that uses python is a package designer with unit tests and a buildbot that runs with all the most advanced configurations (that show hidden warnings). This warning hiding feature's just making python a bit more of a "dark art of the few who know it well". What ever happened to "unless explicitly silenced"? --yuv