[New-bugs-announce] [issue25216] Warnings stacklevel frames to skip

[Jim Jewett]

New submission from Jim Jewett:

warnings.warn(stacklevel=2) is a longstanding idiom.

It broke in 3.3 because python itself added some additional infrastructure frames in between; now stacklevel should be 8 or 10 in some releases.

issue24305 adds a workaround for 3.5, to ignore internal frames -- defined as those which contain both 'importlib' and '_bootstrap' in filename.

I would prefer to see a supported hook, so that either the caller or the program setup could list other modules or packages to ignore when counting frames.  That way, I could write

mycall(otherlib(foo))

and otherlib could ensure that the warning pointed to mycall, rather than to something internal to otherlib, even if otherlib were refactored to a different stack depth.

Ignoring just the import machinery would of course be a good default.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 251328
nosy: Jim.Jewett
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Warnings stacklevel frames to skip
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.6

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