[stdlib-sig] standardizing the deprecation policy (and how noisy they are)

[Ben Finney]

Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se> writes:

> So constantly spitting out DeprecationWarnings as soon as something
> becomes deprecated is a most excellent way to train people to ignore
> DeprecationWarnings.
[…]

> Teaching people to run their code through some sort of code-checker
> every so often strikes me as more likely to be [helpful].

Why is one of these helpful but the other one not so? Why can't the “run
your code through a code-checker” remain as easy as running the code
with the next version of Python?

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Ben Finney