[Python-ideas] Show deprecation warnings in the interactive interpreter

random832 at fastmail.us random832 at fastmail.us
Thu Feb 26 17:15:17 CET 2015


On Wed, Feb 25, 2015, at 19:47, Terry Reedy wrote:
> People often experiment with files in editors when writing statements 
> longer than a line or two or when writing multiple statements.  Leaving 
> that aside, people also experiment at *simulated* interactive prompts in 
> guis, such as Idle, that run on Python in normal batch mode.  In either 
> case, changing interactive mode python will have no effect and no
> benefit.

Well obviously another change would have to be made to Idle.

Your argument seems to boil down to "no-one uses the prompt", so why not
just get rid of it?


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