DeprecationWarning on md5

[Zeynel]

Thanks. I tried the suppress it but no success. I need to read the
documentation more carefully. But since this is not error, I will
ignore them for now.


On Nov 18, 9:12 pm, Chris Rebert <c... at rebertia.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Zeynel <azeyn... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> > I am a newbie both in Scrapy and Python. When I create a project with
> > Scrapy I get these errors:
>
> > C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\twisted\python\filepath.py:12:
> > DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib
> > module instead import sha
> > C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\twisted\spread\pb.py:30:
> > DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
> > import md5
> > C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\twisted\mail\smtp.py:10:
> > DeprecationWarning: the MimeWriter module is deprecated; use the email
> > package instead
>
> > I found several references to this "bug" but I could not understand
> > how to fix it. Can anyone help?
>
> This is a "bug" in the version of Twisted you're using. What Python is
> saying is that Twisted is using some modules from the Python stdlib
> that are deprecated and will be removed in some future version of
> Python, thus Twisted will /eventually/ need to be changed to use the
> newer replacement library.
> However, this is only a warning, not an error; the code will run just
> fine until you update to the eventual Python version that removed said
> deprecated libraries (by which time a new Twisted version will
> probably be available with the necessary fixes made).
>
> So, basically you can safely ignore the warnings, unless you want to
> custom-patch your Twisted installation, which I wouldn't particularly
> recommend.
> It's also entirely possible your Twisted is outdated and a new version
> fixed to avoid using the deprecated modules is already available.
>
> If you want to suppress the output of the warnings, see the docs for
> the `warnings` module:http://docs.python.org/library/warnings.html
>
> Cheers,
> Chris
> --http://blog.rebertia.com