warnings module prints garbage

[schmir]

BPO	3241
Nosy	@brettcannon

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assignee = 'https://github.com/brettcannon'
closed_at = <Date 2008-06-30.07:02:37.274>
created_at = <Date 2008-06-30.05:56:39.222>
labels = ['type-bug', 'library']
title = 'warnings module prints garbage'
updated_at = <Date 2008-06-30.07:02:37.259>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/schmir'

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priority = 'normal'
resolution = 'wont fix'
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status = 'closed'
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type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue3241'
versions = ['Python 2.6', 'Python 2.5']

[schmir]

The warnings module prints garbage when the __file__ points to a binary.
This happens e.g. when freezing applications with bbfreeze/py2exe.

It's easy to reproduce even without freezing:

~/ python                                                          
ralf@red ok
Python 2.6b1+ (trunk, Jun 30 2008, 07:26:07) 
[GCC 4.3.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> __file__=sys.executable
>>> import md5
/home/ralf/py26/bin/python:1: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is
deprecated; use hashlib instead
 
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[schmir]

I just noticed that this also happens with 2.5.
I first thought it was a regression, since I've never seen frozen
programs print such garbage, it's apparently caused by bbfreeze choosing
a dubious __file__ and by 2.6 having much more warnings statements.

feel free to close as wontfix.