[Python-Dev] Print policy for deprecated modules (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Jul 23 00:38:48 CEST 2012

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti at gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 12:18 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:

What is a print policy for deprecated modules? "new" module is deprecated in 2.6, but 2.7.3 doesn't print any warnings. Is it a bug? python -Wd -c "import new" In theory this should show a warning, but for some reason it doesn't. Reading the messages on http://bugs.python.org/issue1247765 it seems that there wasn't a clear consensus about the deprecation schedule, so that might be the reason. If the warning is missing just because no one remembered to add it, I guess it can still be fixed on 2.7, but for 2.6 is too late now. FWIW you get a warning if you use the -3 flag: $ python -Wd -3 -c "import new" -c:1: DeprecationWarning: The 'new' module has been removed in Python 3.0; use the 'types' module instead.

IIRC we decided not to add new deprecations to 2.7, since the deprecation would only affect the Python 3 line anyway -- nothing that exists in Python 2 is going away in Python 2...

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