[Python-Dev] ImportWarning flood

[Benji York]

Michael Hudson wrote:
> Benji York <benji at benjiyork.com> writes:
> 
>>Nick Coghlan wrote:
>>
>>>Perhaps ImportWarning should default to being ignored, the same way 
>>>PendingDeprecationWarning does?
>>>
>>>Then -Wd would become 'the one obvious way' to debug import problems
>>
>>+1
> 
> I'm not sure what this would achieve

I'm more concerned with what it shouldn't achieve (changing the rules in 
an annoying and disruptive way).

> The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of saying
> something when an import fails only because of a missing __init__.py
> file.

I totally agree!  I just doubted that approach would be appealing [to 
Guido] when the choice of adding warnings had already been made.
--
Benji York