[Python-Dev] Dealing with mimetools usage in the stdlib

[Adam Olsen]

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> On my quest to remove warnings raised in 2.6 when Python is run with
> -3, the issue of dealing with mimetools has come up in terms of
> backwards-compatibility. For instance, in BaseHTTPServer, the headers
> attribute on BaseHTTPRequestHandler is an instance of
> mimetools.Message. But in 3.0 it is an instance of
> http.client.HTTPMessage.
>
> So my question is, should 2.6 be changed to match 3.0, or should
> deprecation warnings for mimetools (and possibly other modules) just
> be silenced so as to not risk breaking backwards-compatibility?

Just silence them.  The warnings are an aid for finding bugs, not an
excuse to create more bugs.


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Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus