On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Ben Finney <[email protected]<ben%[email protected]> > wrote:
> Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> writes: > > > On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Michael Foord <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Almost no-one is ever going to run Python with PendingDeprecation > > > warnings switched on, so there should be at least one 'noisy' > > > release in my opinion. > > > > I disagree. [snip] > I learned python from an old book that taught me to raise string exceptions, noisy warnings about deprecation were the only thing that tipped me off that something's wrong. As a newb I would have never executed python with any option at all, no way I would have had enough mileage to hear about such a thing. For me back then, python would have just magically broken on a random day. --yuv
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