[Python-Dev] Proposal: go back to enabling DeprecationWarning by default (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull turnbull.stephen.fw at u.tsukuba.ac.jp
Mon Nov 6 01:26:26 EST 2017

Nick Coghlan writes:

Hence the proposed documentation change: the responsibility for silencing these warnings (for both their own code and for their dependencies) should rest with application developers,

How do you propose to handle users with legacy apps that they can't or their organization won't or they don't wanna upgrade? As I understand it, their only option would be something global, which they may not want to do.

We've been running the current experiment for 7 years, and the main observable outcome

Well, yeah. You can't observe something that doesn't happen, period.

Bottom line: this is NOT a simple proposal, because it inherently deals in counterfactual reasoning.

Steve

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