Fredrik Lundh wrote:
Mensanator wrote:
I'm not the one who wrote sympy, so I guess I'm not
the only one who didn't notice it.
If it's a well known problem, then sorry I wasted
your time.
Given that 2.5 explicitly warns about this specific change:
>>> as = 1
<stdin>:1: Warning: 'as' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6
it's an unknown issue only for people who has 1) never used their code
under 2.5, or 2) never looks at the output produced by their programs.
The PEP-5 process guarantees that "users will have at least a year to
test their programs and migrate them from use of the deprecated
construct to the alternative one," and Python 2.5 was released *two*
years ago.
So it sure looks like the SimPy folks ignored the established process.
Why they've done that is probably a more interesting issue than the
change itself.
No warnings show up when importing the offending module:
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54869, Apr 18 2007, 22:08:04)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5367)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from sympy.mpmath import specfun
>>>
So what could be suppressing the warning?
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