[Python-Dev] Why does httplib import from test_support?

[Brett Cannon]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:
> On Aug 18, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>>
>> If it's about silencing warnings, then how about putting it in the
>> warnings
>> module?
>
>
> That sounds good to me, and would be very reasonable.  This would make a
> nice context manager.
>

That works for me as well; just move catch_warning() to 'warnings' and
leave test.test_support as-is. If we did that, though, I would want to
make 'record' False by default so that it had more reasonable defaults
for non-testing purposes.

-Brett