[Python-modules-team] Bug#589171: core/view.py: DeprecationWarning

[Enrico Zini]

Package: python-toscawidgets
Version: 0.9.7.2-1
Severity: normal

Hello, and thanks for maintaning ToscaWidgets.

It seems that python2.6 raises a DeprecationWarning in ToscaWidgets
code:

  enrico at viaza:~/dev/cfget$ nosetests
  /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/tw/core/view.py:223: DeprecationWarning: object.__new__() takes no parameters
    obj = object.__new__(cls, *args, **kw)
  ..........
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
  Ran 10 tests in 0.029s
  
  OK

<despair>
It is interesting to note that the warning is triggered when running
nosetests on cfget, which is a tiny little script of one single file
that doesn't use anything outside of the normal python standard library.

Oh, well, even when just running nosetests --help:
  $ nosetests --help
  /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/tw/core/view.py:223: DeprecationWarning: object.__new__() takes no parameters
    obj = object.__new__(cls, *args, **kw)
    Usage: nosetests [options]

I have no idea what went through the mind of whoever designed things so
that a DeprecationWarning in ToscaWidgets would show in such conditions,
but oh my god there is so much wrong accumulating in the Python
ecosystem that every day is a new experience in setting a new low.

This has nothing to do with this bug, though.
</despair>


Ciao,

Enrico

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Versions of packages python-toscawidgets depends on:
ii  python-formencode             1.2.2-1    validation and form generation Pyt
ii  python-simplejson             2.1.1-1    simple, fast, extensible JSON enco
ii  python-support                1.0.9      automated rebuilding support for P
ii  python-webob                  0.9.8-1    Python module providing WSGI reque

python-toscawidgets recommends no packages.

Versions of packages python-toscawidgets suggests:
ii  python-cheetah                2.4.2.1-1  text-based template engine and Pyt
ii  python-genshi                 0.6-1      Python XML-based template engine
ii  python-kid                    0.9.6-2    simple Pythonic template language 

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