Łukasz Langa @ambv@mastodon.social
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@freakboy3742Russell Keith-Magee @sethmlarsonSeth Larson @hugovkHugo van Kemenade This was decided quite long ago based on the (I think correct) assumption that the end user is not the right recipient for this warning.

Therefore, we put all that in -Xdev. I know you rejected that as "if only everybody would", @sethmlarsonSeth Larson, but since changing the default visibility would also force every end user program to "just change the warnings filter", this is an equivalent "if only everybody would".

We should evangelize the use of -Xdev and/or pytest

Philip Mallegol-Hansen @philip@mallegolhansen.com
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@ambvŁukasz Langa @freakboy3742Russell Keith-Magee @sethmlarsonSeth Larson @hugovkHugo van Kemenade I will gladly admit this is the first time I’ve heard of -Xdev, excited to use it in the future!

In case anyone else reads this thread and finds themselves in the same boat: docs.python.org/3/library/devm

The Python Development Mode introduces additional runtime checks that are too expensive to be enabled by default. It should not be more verbose than the default if the code is correct; new warnings...

Python Development Mode

The Python Development Mode introduces additional runtime checks that are too expensive to be enabled by default. It should not be more verbose than the default if the code is correct; new warnings...

docs.python.org · Python documentation

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