[stdlib-sig] -Wi

[Antoine Pitrou]

> I'm probably unable to catch up on this whole thread right now, but  
> having been recently defeated by DeprecationWarnings when attempting  
> to update Launchpad to Python 2.6, I'd say the one thing that would  
> have really helped us is an environment variable tied to -W, e.g  
> $PYTHONWARNINGS.  If I could have shut up DeprecationWarnings with one  
> wave of my magic setenv, I think things would have gone much quicker  
> for us.

That's a good point, I think. How about opening a ticket?