[Python-Dev] ImportWarning flood

[Michael Hudson]

Benji York <benji at benjiyork.com> writes:

> Nick Coghlan wrote:
>> Perhaps ImportWarning should default to being ignored, the same way 
>> PendingDeprecationWarning does?
>> 
>> Then -Wd would become 'the one obvious way' to debug import problems
>
> +1

I'm not sure what this would achieve -- people who don't know enough
about Python to add __init__.py files aren't going to know enough to
make suppressed-by-default warnings not suppressed.

The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of saying
something when an import fails only because of a missing __init__.py
file.  I guess I should try to implement it...

Cheers,
mwh

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