On 07 September 1999, Guido van Rossum said:
> This is a valuable service! Even though I'm sure that it will cause
> some pain for people who were used to this programming style...
>
> I'm not sure I like the fact that you can't turn it off --
> traditionally, Python has had a "no warnings" policy. That has been
> diluted a bit (python -t prints warnings) but so far it has been the
> default.
>
> I'm wondering if we should introduce a general '-w' flag to turn on
> warnings like this (which would subsume -t)? Or perhaps there should
> be a -W flag ("no warnings") and warnings should be the default?
Yes yes yes! While adding "-w" is a long way from having a
comprehensive set of compile-time warnings in place, it at least means
that someone is *thinking* about it.
Also, I would suggest that there should be some standard internal
mechanism for reporting errors rather than just calling
'PySys_WriteStderr()'. Something as simple as this would probably do
the trick:
void Py_Warning (char *filename, int line, char *msg)
{
if (on_a_platform_where_stderr_means_something)
PySys_WriteStderr ("warning: file %s, line %d: %s",
filename, line, msg);
else
do_whatever_it_takes_for_this_platform();
}
Well, you get the idea. I make no claim that this is an appropriate
name for this function, nor do I have anything to say about where it
should live. It should also be smart about unknown filename or line
number (eg. skip filename if filename == NULL, skip line number
if line == -1).
Oh, and of course we'll need to add a global variable $^W so that
programmers can turn run-time warnings on and off as needed. *duck*
Maybe sys.show_warnings? ;-) (Of course, that's assuming a run-time
warning system in addition to the compile-time warnings of -t and Skip's
patch.)
Greg
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