[Python-Dev] Py3k DeprecationWarning in stdlib

[Brett Cannon]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 9:01 AM, Jean-Paul Calderone <exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:52:18 +1000, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't particularly care about the details, I just want some public
>>> API for this.  Making warn_explicit public seems better to me, since
>>> it was already there in previous versions of Python, and it lets you
>>> completely ignore both the filters list and the global registry, but
>>> if others would rather make the filters and global registry a part of
>>> the public API, that's fine by me as well.
>>
>> Why do you say warn_explicit isn't public? It's in both the 2.5 and 2.6
>> API docs for the warnings module.
>
> Brett told me it was private (on this list several weeks or a month or so
> ago).  It's also no longer called in 2.6 by the C implementation of the
> warning system.
>

I don't remember saying it is private, just that you can't replace the
function in the module and expect everything to continue to work
properly like you can with showwarning().

-Brett