[Python-Dev] ImportWarning flood (original) (raw)
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Jul 1 10:01:29 CEST 2006
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Guido van Rossum wrote:
It's up to the release manager now to decide whether the pitchforks at Google or the pitchforks in the larger Python community are sharper. ;-)
--Guido (ducks)
I vaguely recall one of the reasons we went with the warning approach was to find out whether or not dropping init.py would cause serious problems - I think we have our answer to that question now :)
How does this sound for a way forward?:
2.5b2:
- ignore ImportWarning by default (like PendingDeprecationWarning)
- include in What's New instructions to enable it via the command line or Python code
2.6:
- only show ImportWarning if the import ultimately fails
- enable ImporWarning by default
- consider allowing a .py extension on a directory name as an alternative to an init.py file.
Google could then change their sitecustomize.py to enable the warning by default when they roll out 2.5 :)
Cheers, Nick.
-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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