[Python-Dev] Pronouncement needed in issue9675

[Guido van Rossum]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Jesus Cea <jcea at jcea.es> wrote:
> On 29/09/10 00:56, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
>> <amauryfa at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2010/9/28 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:
>>>> Converting to a Py3k warning sounds like the best option.
>>>
>>> Can someone please explain why converting to a PyCapsule object is not
>>> an option?
>>> PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() and PyCObject_Import() accept Capsules and will
>>> work as before.
>>
>> Because bsddb is an external module?
>
> Uhm?. I am confused...
>
> The reason to rollback the deprecation warning is because it is breaking
> other external modules too, see a previous post. Since there is no 2.8
> planned, a deprecation warning is not useful. See the thread linked in
> the tracker.
>
> About converting the deprecation warning to a py3k warning... Would a
> py3k warning be converted to an error when python is invoked as "-We"?.
> If that is the case, we are in the same situation.

Hm, I am okay with programs not working if -We -3 is selected. Why
would anyone want to run in that mode anyway? And if -We crashes you
have a bug in your C code (not enouggh error checking),.

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)