[stdlib-sig] standardizing the deprecation policy (and how noisy they are)

[Brett Cannon]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 11:40, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> Brett Cannon schrieb:
>> On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 16:53, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
>>> Brett Cannon schrieb:
>>>> During the moratorium PEP discussions Guido said he wanted to quiet
>>>> down deprecation warnings. I see there being two options on this.
>>>>
>>>> One is to keep things as is, but to require two releases with
>>>> PendingDeprecationWarning so there are three years of
>>>> silent-by-default warnings to update your code. But that last release
>>>> before removal came would still be noisy.
>>>>
>>>> The other option is to simply have all warnings filtered out by
>>>> default. We could alter -W so that when it is used w/o an argument it
>>>> turns to what is currently the default behaviour (or even turn all
>>>> warnings which is more than what happens now).
>>>
>>> As a technical note, optional option arguments are a bad idea.
>>>
>>>   python -W ignore
>>>
>>> Am I calling the file "ignore" with all warnings enabled or running the
>>> interactive interpreter ignoring all warnings?
>>
>> You are calling the file called "ignore"; the argument to -W must
>> contain colons to be valid.
>
> It doesn't need to now; and IMO that is quite helpful, since it allows e.g. a
> very short -Wi argument without me having to remember just how many colons
> I have to put there.
>
> And even if that change is deemed to be fine, why shouldn't I have colons in
> my filename?  Special cases are not special enough... ;)

OK, fine, I didn't think it through very much when I proposed -W. We
can add -w for the same purpose.

-Brett