[Python-Dev] [python-committers] Enabling depreciation warnings feature code cutoff

[Guido van Rossum]

What does "RFE" mean? I don't recall hearing that term before on the Python
bug tracker. Request For E-what? (I presume it's a RedHat internal term?)

On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 6:57 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8 November 2017 at 11:46, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 8 November 2017 at 10:03, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> >> > OK, so let's come up with a set of heuristics that does the right
> thing
> >> > for
> >> > those cases specifically. I'd say whenever you're executing code from
> a
> >> > zipfile or some such it's not considered your own code (by default).
> >>
> >> My current preferred heuristic is just to add a new default filter to
> the
> >> list:
> >>
> >>     once::DeprecationWarning:__main__
> >>
> >> Which says to warn specifically for the __main__ module, and continue
> >> ignoring everything else.
> >
> > OK, that sounds great.
> >
> >> That way ad hoc scripts and the REPL will get warnings by default,
> >> while zipapps and packages can avoid warnings by keeping their
> >> __main__.py simple, and importing a CLI helper function from another
> >> module. Entry point wrapper scripts will implicitly have the same
> >> effect for installed packages.
> >
> > That's fine.
> >
> >> If folks want to get warnings for other modules as well, then they can
> >> either pass "-Wd" to get warnings for everything, or else enable them
> >> selectively using the default main module filter as an example.
> >
> > Assuming that's how it already works, we're done here. :-)
>
> Cool :)
>
> RFE filed here for that specific change to the default filter set:
> https://bugs.python.org/issue31975
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
> P.S. If anyone wants to follow up on some of the other more esoteric
> ideas we've discussed in the past few days, they can be separate RFEs.
>
> --
> Nick Coghlan   |   ncoghlan at gmail.com   |   Brisbane, Australia
>



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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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