Add future warnings about breaking changes in 3.0.0 (#765)

* add future warnings on breaking changes in 3.0.0

* remove rogue comma

* adjust warning filter in test

* format the warnings properly

* temporarily skip warning test for criteria

* remove outdated line

* Only warn when using deprecated behavior

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Co-authored-by: Martin Stancsics <[email protected]>

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Unreleased
 - Require Python>=3.9 in line with `NEP 29 <https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0029-deprecation_policy.html#support-table>`_
 - Build and test with Python 3.12 in CI.
 - Added line search stopping criterion for tiny loss improvements based on gradient information.
+- Added warnings about breaking changes in future versions.
 
 2.6.0 - 2023-09-05
 ------------------

src/glum/_glm.py

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
     _least_squares_solver,
     _trust_constr_solver,
 )
-from ._util import _align_df_categories, _safe_toarray
+from ._util import _align_df_categories, _positional_args_deprecated, _safe_toarray
 
 _float_itemsize_to_dtype = {8: np.float64, 4: np.float32, 2: np.float16}
 
@@ -1118,6 +1118,7 @@ def _solve_regularization_path(
 
         return self.coef_path_
 
+    @_positional_args_deprecated()
     def report_diagnostics(
         self, full_report: bool = False, custom_columns: Optional[Iterable] = None
     ) -> None:
@@ -1144,6 +1145,7 @@ def report_diagnostics(
         with pd.option_context("display.max_rows", None, "display.max_columns", None):
             print(diagnostics)
 
+    @_positional_args_deprecated()
     def get_formatted_diagnostics(
         self, full_report: bool = False, custom_columns: Optional[Iterable] = None
     ) -> Union[str, pd.DataFrame]:
@@ -1201,6 +1203,7 @@ def _find_alpha_index(self, alpha):
             f"{self._alphas}. Consider specifying the index directly via 'alpha_index'."
         )
 
+    @_positional_args_deprecated(("X", "offset"))
     def linear_predictor(
         self,
         X: ArrayLike,
@@ -1276,6 +1279,7 @@ def linear_predictor(
 
         return xb
 
+    @_positional_args_deprecated(unchanged_args=("X", "sample_weight", "offset"))
     def predict(
         self,
         X: ShapedArrayLike,
@@ -1338,6 +1342,7 @@ def predict(
         sample_weight = _check_weights(sample_weight, X.shape[0], X.dtype)
         return mu * sample_weight
 
+    @_positional_args_deprecated(("X", "y", "sample_weight", "offset"), 0)
     def coef_table(
         self,
         confidence_level=0.95,
@@ -1432,6 +1437,7 @@ def coef_table(
             index=names,
         )
 
+    @_positional_args_deprecated(("X", "y", "sample_weight", "offset"), 0)
     def wald_test(
         self,
         R: Optional[np.ndarray] = None,
@@ -1738,6 +1744,7 @@ def _wald_test_feature_names(
             expected_information=expected_information,
         )
 
+    @_positional_args_deprecated(("X", "y", "sample_weight", "offset"), 2)
     def std_errors(
         self,
         X=None,
@@ -1801,6 +1808,7 @@ def std_errors(
             ).diagonal()
         )
 
+    @_positional_args_deprecated(("X", "y", "sample_weight", "offset"), 2)
     def covariance_matrix(
         self,
         X=None,
@@ -2727,6 +2735,7 @@ class GeneralizedLinearRegressor(GeneralizedLinearRegressorBase):
           https://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/papers/l1_glmnet/long-glmnet.pdf
     """
 
+    @_positional_args_deprecated()
     def __init__(
         self,
         alpha=None,
@@ -2763,6 +2772,10 @@ def __init__(
         robust: bool = True,
         expected_information: bool = False,
     ):
+        if alpha is None:
+            warnings.warn(
+                "The default value of `alpha` will become `0` in 3.0.0.", FutureWarning
+            )
         self.alphas = alphas
         self.alpha = alpha
         super().__init__(
@@ -2837,6 +2850,7 @@ def _validate_hyperparameters(self) -> None:
             )
         super()._validate_hyperparameters()
 
+    @_positional_args_deprecated(("X", "y", "sample_weight", "offset"))
     def fit(
         self,
         X: ArrayLike,

src/glum/_glm_cv.py

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
     setup_p2,
 )
 from ._link import Link, LogLink
-from ._util import _safe_lin_pred
+from ._util import _positional_args_deprecated, _safe_lin_pred
 
 
 class GeneralizedLinearRegressorCV(GeneralizedLinearRegressorBase):
@@ -282,6 +282,7 @@ class GeneralizedLinearRegressorCV(GeneralizedLinearRegressorBase):
         Only relevant when computing robust standard errors.
     """
 
+    @_positional_args_deprecated()
     def __init__(
         self,
         l1_ratio=0,
@@ -370,6 +371,7 @@ def _validate_hyperparameters(self) -> None:
             )
         super()._validate_hyperparameters()
 
+    @_positional_args_deprecated(("X", "y", "sample_weight", "offset"))
     def fit(
         self,
         X: ArrayLike,

src/glum/_util.py

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 import logging
+import warnings
+from functools import wraps
 from typing import Union
 
 import numpy as np
@@ -106,3 +108,38 @@ def _safe_toarray(X) -> np.ndarray:
         return X.toarray()
     else:
         return np.asarray(X)
+
+
+def _positional_args_deprecated(unchanged_args=(), unchanged_args_number=None):
+    """
+    Raise a FutureWarning if more than `unchanged_args_number` positional
+    arguments are passed.
+    """
+    if unchanged_args_number is None:
+        unchanged_args_number = len(unchanged_args)
+
+    def decorator(func):
+        first_part = "Arguments" if unchanged_args else "All arguments"
+        exceptions = (
+            " other than " + ", ".join(f"`{arg}`" for arg in unchanged_args)
+            if unchanged_args
+            else ""
+        )
+
+        msg = (
+            f"{first_part} to `{func.__qualname__}`{exceptions} "
+            "will become keyword-only in 3.0.0."
+        )
+
+        @wraps(func)
+        def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
+            if len(args) > unchanged_args_number + 1:  # +1 for self
+                warnings.warn(
+                    msg,
+                    FutureWarning,
+                )
+            return func(*args, **kwargs)
+
+        return wrapper
+
+    return decorator

tests/glm/test_glm.py

@@ -2310,6 +2310,7 @@ def test_information_criteria(regression_data):
     )
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skip(reason="Skip while future warnings are raised.")
 @pytest.mark.filterwarnings("ignore: There is no")
 def test_information_criteria_raises_correct_warnings_and_errors(regression_data):
     X, y = regression_data