Use warnings module for deprecation messagse.

sentry_sdk/consts.py

@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ class SPANDATA:
 
     AI_TOOL_CALLS = "ai.tool_calls"
     """
-    For an AI model call, the function that was called. This is deprecated for OpenAI, and replaced by tool_calls
+    For an AI model call, the function that was called.
     """
 
     AI_TOOLS = "ai.tools"

sentry_sdk/integrations/opentelemetry/scope.py

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from typing import cast
 from contextlib import contextmanager
+import warnings
 
 from opentelemetry.context import (
     get_value,
@@ -142,8 +143,10 @@ def start_transaction(self, **kwargs):
             This function is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
             Use :py:meth:`sentry_sdk.start_span` instead.
         """
-        logger.warning(
-            "The `start_transaction` method is deprecated, please use `sentry_sdk.start_span instead.`"
+        warnings.warn(
+            "The `start_transaction` method is deprecated, please use `sentry_sdk.start_span instead.`",
+            DeprecationWarning,
+            stacklevel=2,
         )
         return self.start_span(**kwargs)
 

sentry_sdk/scope.py

@@ -563,8 +563,10 @@ def trace_propagation_meta(self, *args, **kwargs):
         """
         span = kwargs.pop("span", None)
         if span is not None:
-            logger.warning(
-                "The parameter `span` in trace_propagation_meta() is deprecated and will be removed in the future."
+            warnings.warn(
+                "The parameter `span` in trace_propagation_meta() is deprecated and will be removed in the future.",
+                DeprecationWarning,
+                stacklevel=2,
             )
 
         meta = ""
@@ -735,8 +737,10 @@ def transaction(self, value):
         # transaction name or transaction (self._span) depending on the type of
         # the value argument.
 
-        logger.warning(
-            "Assigning to scope.transaction directly is deprecated: use scope.set_transaction_name() instead."
+        warnings.warn(
+            "Assigning to scope.transaction directly is deprecated: use scope.set_transaction_name() instead.",
+            DeprecationWarning,
+            stacklevel=2,
         )
         self._transaction = value
         if self._span and self._span.containing_transaction:
@@ -954,8 +958,10 @@ def start_transaction(self, **kwargs):
             This function is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
             Use :py:meth:`sentry_sdk.start_span` instead.
         """
-        logger.warning(
-            "The `start_transaction` method is deprecated, please use `sentry_sdk.start_span instead.`"
+        warnings.warn(
+            "The `start_transaction` method is deprecated, please use `sentry_sdk.start_span instead.`",
+            DeprecationWarning,
+            stacklevel=2,
         )
         return NoOpSpan(**kwargs)
 

sentry_sdk/tracing.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from datetime import datetime
 from enum import Enum
 import json
+import warnings
 
 from opentelemetry import trace as otel_trace, context
 from opentelemetry.trace import (
@@ -476,8 +477,10 @@ def containing_transaction(self):
         .. deprecated:: 3.0.0
             This will be removed in the future. Use :func:`root_span` instead.
         """
-        logger.warning(
-            "Deprecated: This will be removed in the future. Use root_span instead."
+        warnings.warn(
+            "Deprecated: This will be removed in the future. Use root_span instead.",
+            DeprecationWarning,
+            stacklevel=2,
         )
         return self.root_span