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

[Guido van Rossum]

> How about severe/SEVERE - a fairly common word, and only one letter
> more to type than fatal?

Doesn't tickle my fancy like fatal/FATAL does.  I think that
critical/CRITICAL is okay as long as we can't agree on a replacement,
so let's stick with that.  warn/WARN still will become
warning/WARNING, with no backwards compatibility.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)