[Python-Dev] ImportWarning flood (original) (raw)

Delaney, Timothy (Tim) tdelaney at avaya.com
Mon Jun 26 23:53:49 CEST 2006

Michael Hudson wrote:

Benji York <benji at benjiyork.com> writes:

Nick Coghlan wrote: Perhaps ImportWarning should default to being ignored, the same way PendingDeprecationWarning does?

Then -Wd would become 'the one obvious way' to debug import problems +1 I'm not sure what this would achieve -- people who don't know enough about Python to add init.py files aren't going to know enough to make suppressed-by-default warnings not suppressed.

The change was prompted by developers (specifically, Google developers). Developers should be able to put -Wd in their automated build scripts.

The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of saying something when an import fails only because of a missing init.py file. I guess I should try to implement it...

This is by far and away my preference as well (stating which directories may have been importable if they had init.py in the exception) but it was shot down in the original discussion.

Tim Delaney

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