[Python-Dev] Re: A warning switch?

Jack Jansen jack@oratrix.nl
Wed, 01 Mar 2000 13:34:42 +0100


> > What about adding a command-line switch for enabling warnings, as has
> > been suggested long ago?  The .append() change could then print a
> > warning in 1.6alphas (and betas?), but still run, and be turned into
> > an error later.
> 
> That's better.  I propose that the warnings are normally on, and that
> there are flags to turn them off or thrn them into errors.

Can we then please have an interface to the "give warning" call (in stead of a 
simple fprintf)? On the mac (and possibly also in PythonWin) it's probably 
better to pop up a dialog (possibly with a "don't show again" button) than do 
a printf which may get lost.
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