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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:24:40 -0400
From: Dan Sommers <dan@tombstonezero.net>
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Subject: Re: best way to create warning for obsolete functions and call new one
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On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 22:26:11 +0200
Gelonida N <gelonida@gmail.com> wrote:

> As these modules are used by quite some projects and as I do not want
> to force everybody to rename immediately I just want to warn users,
> that they call functions, that have been renamed and that will be
> obsoleted.

You want a  DeprecationWarning.

HTH,
Dan