FCNTL module deprecation warning

Peter Hansen peter at engcorp.com
Tue Jul 15 10:25:14 EDT 2003


Sybren Stuvel wrote:
> 
> Meyer, Tony enlightened us with:
> > C:\Program Files\Python23\lib\fcntl.py:7: DeprecationWarning: the
> > FCNTL module is deprecated; please use fcntl
> 
> Seems you're using windoze.
> 
> > It seems to be saying that I shouldn't use "import FCNTL" (which gives
> > the same warning), but "import fcntl", but that's what I _am_ doing.
> 
> Windoze has a case insensitive filesystem, and thus it can't see the
> difference between FCNTL and fcntl. Try removing the depricated FCNTL
> from your harddisk, or rename it to FCNTL-dep.py.

And check for any .pyc files that might be involved, like FCNTL.pyc,
since they might be confusing things even more...




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