[Python-ideas] A library for the deprecation of a function/class

[Ethan Furman]

On 04/17/2014 12:28 PM, Stéphane Wirtel wrote:
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> With the CPython sprint, I was thinking about a lib to mark a function/class as deprecated.

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> The deprecated decorator should check the version of the software and the version of Python if asked with the arguments.
> it will raise warnings.warn with PendingDeprecationWarning or DeprecationWarning. Can be used in the documentation, via
> introspection.

Seems like a useful idea.  Others have also thought so and  there are some code snippets at
https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonDecoratorLibrary#Generating_Deprecation_Warnings

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~Ethan~