On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 18:30:24 -0800 Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jan 25, 2014, at 5:29 AM, Ezio Melotti <ezio.melotti at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Nick also suggested to document > > our deprecation policy in PEP 5 (Guidelines for Language Evolution: > > http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0005/ ). > > Here's a few thoughts on deprecations: > > * If we care at all about people moving to Python 3, then we'll stop > doing anything that makes the process more difficult. For someone > moving from Python 2.7, it really doesn't matter if something that > existed in 2.7 got deprecated in 3.1 and removed in 3.3; from their > point-of-view, it just one more thing that won't work. +1. > * The notion of PendingDeprecationWarnings didn't work out very well. > Conceptually, it was a nice idea, but in practice no one was benefitting > from it. The warnings slowed down working, but not yet deprecated code. > And no one was actually seeing the pending deprecations. +1 too, especially since DeprecationWarnings are now silent by default, there's no reason to start with a PendingDeprecationWarning IMO. Regards Antoine.
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