[python-committers] [Python-Dev] Reminder: 12 weeks to 3.7 feature code cutoff

[R. David Murray]

On Mon, 06 Nov 2017 11:46:48 +1000, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6 November 2017 at 02:02, Yury Selivanov <yselivanov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 3, 2017 at 11:30 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> The current lack of DeprecationWarnings in 3.6 is a fairly major
> >> oversight/bug, though:
> >
> > There's no oversight.  We had PendingDeprecationWarning for
> > async/await names in 3.5, and DeprecationWarning in 3.6.  You just
> > need to enable warnings to see them:
> 
> Gah, seven years on from Python 2.7's release, I still get caught by
> that. I'm tempted to propose we reverse that decision and go back to
> enabling them by default :P
> 
> If app devs don't want their users seeing deprecation warnings, they
> can silence them globally during app startup, and end users can do the
> same in PYTHONSTARTUP for their interactive sessions.

I'm glad you are only tempted and have not actually proposed it :)

--David