[Python-Dev] Re: logging package -- rename warn to warning? (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@acm.org
Sat, 18 Jan 2003 15:37:34 -0500

holger krekel writes:

But isn't this a case where the number of people who will use it in the future exceeds the current number of users by a factor of 10 or 100?

Hopefully!

           Is it really worth the possible confusion?

The suggestion wasn't that we document the old names as deprecated, but to simply not document them. Only people with existing code using the package will be using them. We certainly could add a DeprecationWarning for the warn() method.

Introducing a new module with already "deprecated" method names seems strange to me.

The catch, of course, is that we're not introducing it, we're simply adding it to the standard library.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. PythonLabs at Zope Corporation