On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On my quest to remove warnings raised in 2.6 when Python is run with > -3, the issue of dealing with mimetools has come up in terms of > backwards-compatibility. For instance, in BaseHTTPServer, the headers > attribute on BaseHTTPRequestHandler is an instance of > mimetools.Message. But in 3.0 it is an instance of > http.client.HTTPMessage. > > So my question is, should 2.6 be changed to match 3.0, or should > deprecation warnings for mimetools (and possibly other modules) just > be silenced so as to not risk breaking backwards-compatibility?
Just silence them. The warnings are an aid for finding bugs, not an excuse to create more bugs. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
