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[Python-Dev] Removing PendingDeprecationWarning

Inada Naoki songofacandy at gmail.com
Fri Mar 22 04:16:08 EDT 2019 
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 5:06 PM Victor Stinner <vstinner at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Le ven. 22 mars 2019 à 08:54, Inada Naoki <songofacandy at gmail.com> a écrit :
> > Yes.  It will be removed at some point, but not in near future.
> >
> > But when when backward compatibility can be kept by alias,
> > we can be very lazy about removing it.
>
> Honestly, I don't see the point of removing PendingDeprecationWarning
> anytime soon. Practicality beats purity.

I totally agree.

> Removing PendingDeprecationWarning doesn't bring any value to anyone.
> "PendingDeprecationWarning = DeprecationWarning" costs nothing in term
> of maintenance.
>
> If you care, I would suggest to invest time in static analyzers like
> pycodestyle, pylint, pyflakes, etc. Emit a warning with a low
> priority, and let users make their own choices.

Agree too.

>
> > We have `socket.error` for long time.
>
> And it's perfectly fine, no?
>

Yes.  Waiting 10+ years to remove aliases is fine.


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Inada Naoki  <songofacandy at gmail.com>
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