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@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ The Future for Python 2.x
=========================
Python 2.7 is intended to be the last major release in the 2.x series.
Though more major releases have not been absolutely ruled out, the
Python maintainers are planning to focus their efforts on Python 3.x.
The Python maintainers are planning to focus their future efforts on
the Python 3.x series.
This means that 2.7 will remain in place for a long time, running
production systems that have not been ported to Python 3.x.
@ -78,17 +78,27 @@ Two consequences of the long-term significance of 2.7 are:
* It's very likely the 2.7 release will have a longer period of
maintenance compared to earlier 2.x versions. Python 2.7 will
continue to be maintained while the transition to 3.x is in
progress, and that transition will itself be lengthy. Most 2.x
versions are maintained for about 4 years, from the first to the
last bugfix release; patchlevel releases for Python 2.7 will
probably be made for at least 6 years.
continue to be maintained while the transition to 3.x continues.
Maintenance releases for Python 2.7 will probably be made for 5
years.
* Because 2.7 will be running production applications, a policy
decision was made to silence warnings only of interest to developers
by default. Silencing :exc:`DeprecationWarning` and its descendants
prevents users from seeing warnings triggered by an application.
(Carried out in :issue:`7319`.)
* A policy decision was made to silence warnings only of interest to
developers by default. :exc:`DeprecationWarning` and its
descendants are now ignored unless otherwise requested, preventing
users from seeing warnings triggered by an application. (Carried
out in :issue:`7319`.)
In previous releases, :exc:`DeprecationWarning` messages were
enabled by default, providing Python developers with a clear
indication of where their code may break in a future major version
of Python.
However, there are increasingly many users of Python-based
applications who are not directly involved in the development of
those applications. :exc:`DeprecationWarning` messages are
irrelevant to such users, making them worry about an application
that's actually working correctly and burdening the developers of
these applications with responding to these concerns.
You can re-enable display of :exc:`DeprecationWarning` messages by
running Python with the :option:`-Wdefault` (short form: