Warning Messages, was RE: Force anything to be a string.

[Patrick Phalen]

[Tim Peters on warnings re rereferencing builtin function names]:
:: It's irritatingly difficult, but only because Python has no warning msgs
:: today.  So it means inventing a whole bunch of machinery and conventions
:: where none currently exist.  I think it should be done anyway, but since I'm
:: not volunteering my own time to do it can't whine if nobody else does.

Could IDLE handle this?