[Python-Dev] ImportWarning decision

[Guido van Rossum]

On 7/6/06, Phillip J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> At 01:24 PM 7/6/2006 +1000, Anthony Baxter wrote:
> >This means Google can just turn it on in sitecustomize.py and Guido
> >can avoid the hordes of peasants with pitchforks and burning torches.
>
> Is that really true?  It seems to me that Guido indicated a
> sitecustomize-solution wasn't possible, in which case suppression is no
> better than elimination.

Don't worry about it. It's irrelevant anyway since we're not upgrading
to 2.5 any time soon.

BTW The pitchforks pitch was widely misunderstood -- it was a
dramatization to emphasize what I still consider a general problem; if
I believed the problem was limited to Google I would have proposed an
internal solution.

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