…lumn

This is implemented as a decorate on __new__(cls, name=None, data=None, ..)
for Column and MaskedColumn.

The warning is:

In the next major release of astropy (0.3), the order of function
arguments for creating a {class_name} will change.  Currently the order is
{class_name}(name, data, ...), but in 0.3 and later it will be
{class_name}(data, name, ...).  This is consistent with Table and NumPy.

In order to use the same code for Astropy 0.2 and 0.3, column objects
should be created using named keyword arguments for data and name, e.g.:
{class_name}(name='a', data=[1, 2]).

This is only complete for table and io.ascii.  All of these tests
run without generating warnings.  This was done to be sure that
all code in astropy.table and astropy.io.ascii is fully compliant
with the new Column args checking, i.e. it will never happen that
a call to astropy.Table can generate a warning to the user.