[Python-Dev] Deprecating C APIs (Use of PyArg_NoArgs()) (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik@pythonware.com
Wed, 3 Apr 2002 13:07:11 +0200

Martin v. Loewis wrote:

> That's what I wanted, but now that you mention it I'm not sure if the > warning module can currrently detect from which module a particular C > API is called -- it'll probably put the blame on a particular line in > the user's code, and then repeat the warning for each different line > of user code. What could be done, of course, is to give the warning at most once.

and what good is that, really? why would the users of a module I've written have to care about this?

the Py_DEPRECATED approach (and the "grep" tool) is a much better way to use everybody's time.