[Python-Dev] A new warning category? (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Oct 14 20:23:32 CEST 2010

Am 14.10.2010 11:25, schrieb Antoine Pitrou:

Hello, In the http://bugs.python.org/issue10093 discussion, I proposed to add a specific warning category for unclosed files. The rationale is that these warnings will happen in destructors and therefore filtering by line number and filename doesn't make sense. So a new category would be useful in order to allow defining specific rules. Do you think it would go against the moratorium?

I think that warning categories are a library feature: they are mentioned in the library documentation, and not mentioned in the reference manual (in fact, only a single warning is mentioned in the reference manual, namely that exceptions in del are printed - which actually doesn't use the warnings module).

If it is the library feature, then it is exempt from the moratorium:

Allowed to Change The standard library

As the standard library is not directly tied to the language

definition it is not covered by this moratorium.

Regards, Martin

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