[Python-Dev] ImportWarning flood

Mon Jun 26 20:41:04 CEST 2006

Michael Hudson wrote:
> Benji York <benji at benjiyork.com> writes:
>>>Nick Coghlan wrote:
>>>>>Perhaps ImportWarning should default to being ignored, the same way 
>>>PendingDeprecationWarning does?
>>>>>>Then -Wd would become 'the one obvious way' to debug import problems
>>>>+1
>> I'm not sure what this would achieve

I'm more concerned with what it shouldn't achieve (changing the rules in 
an annoying and disruptive way).
> The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of saying
> something when an import fails only because of a missing __init__.py
> file.

I totally agree! I just doubted that approach would be appealing [to 
Guido] when the choice of adding warnings had already been made.
--
Benji York