[Python-Dev] folding cElementTree behind ElementTree in 3.3 (original) (raw)

Philip Jenvey pjenvey at underboss.org
Thu Feb 16 04:40:12 CET 2012

On Feb 13, 2012, at 8:44 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:

With the deprecation warning being silent, is there much to lose, though? Yes, it creates problems for anyone that deliberately converts all warnings to errors when running their test suites. This forces them to spend time switching over to a Python version dependent import of either cElementTree or ElementTree that could have been spent doing something actually productive instead of mere busywork. And, of course, even people that don't convert warnings to errors when running tests will have to make the same switch when the module is eventually removed.

What about a PendingDeprecationWarning? I think you're usually only going to convert DeprecationWarnings to errors (with python -W error::DeprecationWarning or warnings.simplefilter('error', DeprecationWarning))

-- Philip Jenvey

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