As discussed on python-dev, add a mechanism to indicate features
that are in the process of deprecation (PendingDeprecationWarning).
Docs could be improved.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 85da0d3..2c7646d 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@
Core and builtins
+- A new warning PendingDeprecationWarning was added to provide
+ direction on features which are in the process of being deprecated.
+ The warning will not be printed by default. To see the pending
+ deprecations, use -Walways::PendingDeprecationWarning::
+ as a command line option or warnings.filterwarnings() in code.
+
- A new type object, 'string', is added. This is a common base type
for 'str' and 'unicode', and can be used instead of
types.StringTypes, e.g. to test whether something is "a string":