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

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Sat, 18 Jan 2003 21:14:59 -0500

Guido van Rossum wrote: > I think I'd like to change 'warn' to 'warning' (and WARN to WARNING). > Thoughts? I can implement this for Python 2.3a2.

+1 on the name change, but it will break a fair amount of code out there (from the emails I've been receiving). Could we leave warn and WARN in as synonyms for now, but only mention warning and WARNING in the documentation? Or is this against policy?

I'd rather only have one name -- otherwise we'll end up supporting both names forever. In your own distro (if you keep updating it) feel free to support both; in Python, I think I'd like to use only warning/WARNING.

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