[Python-Dev] [Python-3000] Reminder: last alphas next Wednesday 07-May-2008

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>
>  I just closed the release blocker I created (the
>  backwards-compatibility issue with warnings.showwarning() ). I would
>  like to add a PendingDeprecationWarning (or stronger) to 2.6 for
>  showwarning() implementations that don't support the optional 'line'
>  argument. I guess the best way to do it in C code would be to see if
>  PyFunction_GetDefaults() returns a tuple of length two (since
>  showwarning() already has a single optional argument as it is).
>
>  Anyone have an issue with me doing this? Is PendingDeprecationWarning
>  safe enough for 2.6? Or should this be a 3.0-only thing with a
>  DeprecationWarning?

I vote for a full DeprecationWarning.
>
>  -Brett


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Cheers,
Benjamin Peterson