[Python-Dev] A new warning category?

[Brett Cannon]

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 03:27, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Michael Foord
> <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
>>  On 15/10/2010 08:22, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>>>
>>> Brett Cannon writes:
>>>
>>>  >  As one of the co-authors of the PEP I say no.
>>>
>>> Procedural question: Doesn't authorship disqualify you from BDF1P, so
>>> you can't pronounce?
>>
>> I think Brett meant co-authorship of the *moratorium* PEP (which is already
>> accepted).
>
> That's the way I took it as well.

And that is the way to take it. =)

>
> The other factor here is that the moratorium was largely to help other
> implementations get back up to speed with CPython as they dealt with
> the transition to 3.x. Adding a new warning type isn't the kind of
> moving target that something like PEP 380 would be.

Exactly. This is especially true if the other VMs use warnings.py
which will take care of all the details for them.

-Brett

>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
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