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# Copyright (C) 2006 by Canonical Ltd
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# Authors: Robert Collins <robert.collins@canonical.com>
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
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The methods here allow for api symbol versioning.
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__all__ = ['warn', 'set_warning_method', 'zero_seven']
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from warnings import warn
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zero_seven = "%s was deprecated in version 0.7"
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def set_warning_method(method):
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"""Set the warning method to be used by this module.
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It should take a message and a warning category as warnings.warn does.
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def deprecated_method(deprecation_version):
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"""Decorate a method so that use of it will trigger a warning.
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To deprecate an entire class, decorate __init__.
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def method_decorator(callable):
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"""This is the function python calls to perform the decoration."""
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def decorated_method(self, *args, **kwargs):
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"""This is the decorated method."""
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symbol = "%s.%s.%s" % (self.__class__.__module__,
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self.__class__.__name__,
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warn(deprecation_version % symbol, DeprecationWarning)
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return callable(self, *args, **kwargs)
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return decorated_method
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return method_decorator