[Zope-dev] zope.testing 3.8.7: downgrade the deprecation warning

[Gary Poster]

On Jan 26, 2010, at 7:49 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:

> I got tired of seeing things like
> 
> /home/mg/tmp/buildout-eggs/zope.testing-3.8.6-py2.5.egg/zope/testing/testrunner/debug.py:23: DeprecationWarning: zope.testing.doctest is deprecated in favour of the Python standard library doctest module
>  from zope.testing import doctest
> 
> and since zope.testing's trunk hasn't got the problem fully licked yet
> (importing zope.testing.renormalizing causes a deprecation warning
> about zope.testing.doctest), I created a 3.8 branch based on the last
> public zope.testing release (3.8.6), downgraded the DeprecationWarning
> into a PendingDeprecationWarning, and released zope.testing 3.8.7.
> 
> zope.testing's trunk is henceforth known as 3.9.0pre.  Any ideas about
> fixing the deprecation warning caused by renormalizing.py?  All it does
> is
> 
>  'import doctest'
> 
> which, due to Python's unfortunate import semantics, is interpreted as
> 
>  'from zope.testing import doctest'
> 
> Perhaps a 
> 
>  from __future__ import absolute_import
> 
> would help at the top?  But it's only availably starting from Python
> 2.5, and I think zope.testing wants to be compatible with Python 2.4
> too.
> 
> Ideas?

There's always the pre-2.5 icky __import__ hack for this if you need it.  You probably know it, or I can look it up if you want, but that's the only approach I know of for this kind of issue in pre-2.5

Gary