How to warn about class (name) deprecation

Question

I have renamed a python class that is part of a library. I am willing to leave a possibility to use its previous name for some time but would like to warn user that it\'s de

Answer 1

Please have a look at warnings.warn.

As you'll see, the example in the documentation is a deprecation warning:

def deprecation(message):
    warnings.warn(message, DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)