[Python-Dev] deprecating string module?

[Aahz]

On Wed, May 29, 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
> Or maybe we could introduce a new warning category,
> SilentDeprecationWarning, which is normally ignored (like
> OverflowWarning already is).  This could be turned on explicitly with
> a -W option so someone wanting to check that their code is
> future-proof would have an easy way to do so.
> 
> I do not want to ignore all DeprecationWarning messages by default, as
> it would defeat the main purpose of the warning.

+1
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