[Python-Dev] PEP 565: Show DeprecationWarning in __main__

[Guido van Rossum]

On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 5:40 AM, Nathaniel Smith <njs at pobox.com> wrote:

> Eh, numpy does use FutureWarning for changes where the same code will
> transition from doing one thing to doing something else without
> passing through a state where it raises an error. But that decision
> was based on FutureWarning being shown to users by default, not
> because it matches the nominal purpose :-). IIRC I proposed this
> policy for NumPy in the first place, and I still don't even know if it
> matches the original intent because the docs are so vague. "Will
> change behavior in the future" describes every case where you might
> consider using FutureWarning *or* DeprecationWarning, right?
>
> We have been using DeprecationWarning for changes where code will
> transition from working -> raising an error, and that *is* based on
> the Official Recommendation to hide those by default whenever
> possible. We've been doing this for a few years now, and I'd say our
> experience so far has been... poor. I'm trying to figure out how to
> say this politely. Basically it doesn't work at all. What happens in
> practice is that we issue a DeprecationWarning for a year, mostly
> no-one notices, then we make the change in a 1.x.0 release, everyone's
> code breaks, we roll it back in 1.x.1, and then possibly repeat
> several times in 1.(x+1).0 and 1.(x+2).0 until enough people have
> updated their code that the screams die down. I'm pretty sure we'll be
> changing our policy at some point, possibly to always use
> FutureWarning for everything.


Can one of you check that the latest version of PEP 565 gets this right?

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