# PendingDeprecationWarning is really useful?

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/pendingdeprecationwarning-is-really-useful/1038>\
**Category:** Ideas\
**Created:** [March 19, 2019, 8:16am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/pendingdeprecationwarning-is-really-useful/1038 "2019-03-19T08:16:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Senthil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discuss.python.org/senthil/32/18300_2.png) [@Senthil](https://discuss.python.org/u/Senthil)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2019, 12:32am UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/pendingdeprecationwarning-is-really-useful/1038/20 "2019-03-24T00:32:32Z")

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> [@brettcannon](#):
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> I’ve contemplated adding something to `warnings` where you specify what version of Python something is scheduled to be removed in and then it would raise `PendingDeprecationWarning` in \>N version, `DeprecationWarning` in N, and raise a `RuntimeError` or something for N+1 so it doesn’t get forgotten.

I really this. This will force us to remove the APIs that are promised for Deprecation.

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