[Python-Dev] switching on -3 from within a program? (original) (raw)

Anthon van der Neut avanderneut at avid.com
Tue Sep 16 17:32:21 CEST 2008

With a minor modification to the Makefile I was able to get mod_wsgi v2.3 to work with python2.6rc1. I promptly got a warning in my apache log files on the depcrecated use of 'sha' in the paste's cookie module, good! And easily fixed.

After that I was looking for a way to switch on the -3 warnings from within my code to have extra warnings show up in my apache log file.

After reading some documentation I tried from the python2.6 prompt:

import sys sys.py3kwarning = True x = { 'abc': 1 }; x.has_key('abc')

which does not give a warning (starting python2.6 with the -3 option of course does).

Is there anyway to switch this on from within a program with a Python statement? If not, would I need to make a small C-extension module (to be imported as the first module) that sets Py_Py3WarningFlag or something else at the C level, or would that better be done by mod_wsgi's C code.

Regards Anthon

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