[Python-Dev] Pronouncement needed in issue9675

[Nick Coghlan]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> It strikes me that in general deprecation warnings in 2.7 don't do
> anybody any good unless they're Py3k warnings. It sounds to me that
> there is no shame in removing the warning in Python 2.7 (or turning it
> into a Py3k warning -- nobody should expect their code to behave well
> when Py3k warnings are turned into errors). My guess is that the
> warning was added to 2.7 before it was clear that there would never be
> a 2.8.
>
> At the same time I don't want to go so far as to remove all remaining
> deprecation warnings from 2.7.1 (too  much churn) -- but for this
> specific one it sounds like a reasonable compromise.

Converting to a Py3k warning sounds like the best option.

Cheers,
Nick.

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