[Python-Dev] DeprecationWarnings in the regression tests (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:21:27 -0400

I wonder if we shouldn't just add

warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', '', DeprecationWarning) at the top of regrtest.py? Seems like with the proliferation of deprecations, I'm finding I want to add something like this (with the module parameter added to each file that tests a newly deprecated feature. If this is going to be SOP for the test suite, we might as well kill them all with one fell swoop.

No, because a test might use some feature that is deprecated, not as the feature to be tested, but as a tool for the testing. (E.g. a test function might use "from M import *".)

With your approach we would never hear about this deprecation until the feature is finally removed.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)