DeprecationWarning is now silent by default.

This was originally suggested by Guido, discussed on the stdlib-sig mailing
list, and given the OK by Guido directly to me. What this change essentially
means is that Python has taken a policy of silencing warnings that are only
of interest to developers by default. This should prevent users from seeing
warnings which are triggered by an application being run against a new
interpreter before the app developer has a chance to update their code.

Closes issue #7319. Thanks to Antoine Pitrou, Ezio Melotti, and Brian Curtin
for helping with the issue.

3 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_ascii_formatd.py b/Lib/test/test_ascii_formatd.py
index 5ee84fa..77759fe 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_ascii_formatd.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_ascii_formatd.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 import unittest
 from test_support import check_warnings, run_unittest, cpython_only
+import warnings
 
 
 class FormatDeprecationTests(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -17,6 +18,7 @@ class FormatDeprecationTests(unittest.TestCase):
         buf = create_string_buffer(' ' * 100)
 
         with check_warnings() as w:
+            warnings.simplefilter('default')
             PyOS_ascii_formatd(byref(buf), sizeof(buf), '%+.10f',
                                c_double(10.0))
             self.assertEqual(buf.value, '+10.0000000000')
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py b/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
index a30f42b..3a2bdf5 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_exceptions.py
@@ -309,6 +309,7 @@ class ExceptionTests(unittest.TestCase):
         # BaseException.__init__ triggers a deprecation warning.
         exc = BaseException("foo")
         with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
+            warnings.simplefilter('default')
             self.assertEquals(exc.message, "foo")
         self.assertEquals(len(w), 1)
         self.assertEquals(w[0].category, DeprecationWarning)
diff --git a/Lib/warnings.py b/Lib/warnings.py
index 8d46cd6..a88e7ba 100644
--- a/Lib/warnings.py
+++ b/Lib/warnings.py
@@ -383,8 +383,8 @@ except ImportError:
 # Module initialization
 _processoptions(sys.warnoptions)
 if not _warnings_defaults:
-    simplefilter("ignore", category=PendingDeprecationWarning, append=1)
-    simplefilter("ignore", category=ImportWarning, append=1)
+    for cls in (DeprecationWarning, PendingDeprecationWarning, ImportWarning):
+        simplefilter("ignore", category=cls, append=True)
     bytes_warning = sys.flags.bytes_warning
     if bytes_warning > 1:
         bytes_action = "error"