[Python-Dev] Deprecating C APIs (Use of PyArg_NoArgs())

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Wed, 03 Apr 2002 12:50:58 +0200


"Martin v. Loewis" wrote:
> 
> Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:
> 
> > That's what I wanted, but now that you mention it I'm not sure if the
> > warning module can currrently detect from which module a particular C
> > API is called -- it'll probably put the blame on a particular line in
> > the user's code, and then repeat the warning for each *different* line
> > of user code.
> 
> What *could* be done, of course, is to give the warning at most once.

If that's possible, I'm +1 on generating a warning for the first
usage of PyArg_NoArgs(). Would be nice to have the warning include
the calling module name -- don't know whether that's possible, 
though (I have next to no experience with the warning framework).

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