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eslaught • yesterday at 8:39 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

The solution I've found is to make using the API a hard error with an explicitly temporary and obnoxiously-named workaround variable.

    WORKAROUND_URLLIB3_HEADER_DEPRECATION_THIS_IS_A_TEMPORARY_FIX_CHANGE_YOUR_CODE=1 python3 ...
It's loud, there's an out if you need your code working right now, and when you finally act on the deprecation, if anyone complains, they don't really have legs to stand on.

Of course you can layer it with warnings as a first stage, but ultimately it's either this or remove the code outright (or never remove it and put up with whatever burden that imposes).

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tennysont • yesterday at 10:24 PM

I heard a second-hand story about some team at Google who did this, and named the variable something like:

  I_ACKNOWLEDGE_THAT_THIS_CODE_WILL_PERMANENTLY_BREAK_ON_2022_09_20_WITHOUT_SUPPORT_FROM_TEAM_X=1
a year before the deadline. I would be mildly amused by adding

  _AND_MY_USER_ID_IS="<user_id>"
pvtmert • yesterday at 11:59 PM

Love this idea, as it is already implemented in a $FAANG company tool. (used company wide by 80k+ SDEs). I got used to seeing these in the logs and terminal. So much that my brain now automatically ignores it from my view/seeing like it does for my nose.