[Python-Dev] Re: logging package -- rename warn to warning?

[David Goodger]

[Vinay Sajip ]
>> OK, that's fine - warning/WARNING it is. For consistency, though, we should
>> also lose fatal/FATAL which are currently synonyms for critical/CRITICAL.

[Guido van Rossum]
> Yes, except I find fatal/FATAL so much easier to write.  Do we really
> need the "political correctness" of critical/CRITICAL?

I would characterize "fatal" as misleading, and "critical" as accurate.
"Fatal" implies "death", as in process termination, or sys.exit(), or at
least an exception being raised.  It's an important distinction, well worth
the extra 3 letters.

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