I recently upgraded our app’s Python version from 3.8 to 3.12, which necessitated upgrading several libraries that were not compatible with the new Python version. Since then, I’ve encountered issues with some functions and classes being deprecated.
I’m using Pylance in Visual Studio Code, and while it does catch some deprecated objects, such as:
it fails to catch other deprecated classes that I only discover at runtime, like flask.json.JSONEncoder:
Both deprecations are indicated in their implementations:
Datetime.datetime.utcnow:
<code>@classmethod
def utcnow(cls):
"Construct a UTC datetime from time.time()."
import warnings
warnings.warn("datetime.datetime.utcnow() is deprecated and scheduled for "
"removal in a future version. Use timezone-aware "
"objects to represent datetimes in UTC: "
"datetime.datetime.now(datetime.UTC).",
DeprecationWarning,
stacklevel=2)
t = _time.time()
return cls._fromtimestamp(t, True, None)
</code>
<code>@classmethod
def utcnow(cls):
"Construct a UTC datetime from time.time()."
import warnings
warnings.warn("datetime.datetime.utcnow() is deprecated and scheduled for "
"removal in a future version. Use timezone-aware "
"objects to represent datetimes in UTC: "
"datetime.datetime.now(datetime.UTC).",
DeprecationWarning,
stacklevel=2)
t = _time.time()
return cls._fromtimestamp(t, True, None)
</code>
@classmethod
def utcnow(cls):
"Construct a UTC datetime from time.time()."
import warnings
warnings.warn("datetime.datetime.utcnow() is deprecated and scheduled for "
"removal in a future version. Use timezone-aware "
"objects to represent datetimes in UTC: "
"datetime.datetime.now(datetime.UTC).",
DeprecationWarning,
stacklevel=2)
t = _time.time()
return cls._fromtimestamp(t, True, None)
flask.json.JSONEncoder:
<code> def __init__(self, **kwargs) -> None:
import warnings
warnings.warn(
"'JSONEncoder' is deprecated and will be removed in"
" Flask 2.3. Use 'Flask.json' to provide an alternate"
" JSON implementation instead.",
DeprecationWarning,
stacklevel=3,
)
super().__init__(**kwargs)
</code>
<code> def __init__(self, **kwargs) -> None:
import warnings
warnings.warn(
"'JSONEncoder' is deprecated and will be removed in"
" Flask 2.3. Use 'Flask.json' to provide an alternate"
" JSON implementation instead.",
DeprecationWarning,
stacklevel=3,
)
super().__init__(**kwargs)
</code>
def __init__(self, **kwargs) -> None:
import warnings
warnings.warn(
"'JSONEncoder' is deprecated and will be removed in"
" Flask 2.3. Use 'Flask.json' to provide an alternate"
" JSON implementation instead.",
DeprecationWarning,
stacklevel=3,
)
super().__init__(**kwargs)
Why does Pylance catch some deprecated objects but not others, leaving some to be revealed only at runtime?
And is there any library that can catch those deprecations statically?