[Python-Dev] Re: A warning switch?

[Andrew M. Kuchling]

Fredrik Lundh writes ( about .append(x,y) ):
>I suggest adding an explicit warning in the 1.6 docs,
>and removing it in the first post-1.6 release.

What about adding a command-line switch for enabling warnings, as has
been suggested long ago?  The .append() change could then print a
warning in 1.6alphas (and betas?), but still run, and be turned into
an error later.

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