[Python-Dev] Proposal: go back to enabling DeprecationWarning by default

[Paul Moore]

On 7 November 2017 at 14:21, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> On 11/07/2017 05:44 AM, Paul Moore wrote:
>
>> If you're a user and your application developer didn't do (1) or a
>> library developer developing one of the libraries your application
>> developer chose to use didn't do (2), you're hosed. If you're a user
>> who works in an environment where moving to a new version of the
>> application is administratively complex, you're hosed.
>
> Suffering from DeprecationWarnings is not "being hosed".  Having your
> script/application/framework suddenly stop working because nobody noticed
> something was being deprecated is "being hosed".

OK, I overstated. Apologies. My recollection is of a lot more end user
complaints when deprecation warnings were previously switched on than
others seem to remember, but I can't find hard facts, so I'll assume
I'm misremembering.

Paul