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authorVictor Stinner <vstinner@redhat.com>2019-07-05 08:44:12 (GMT)
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bpo-37481: Deprecate distutils bdist_wininst command (GH-14553)
The distutils bdist_wininst command is now deprecated, use bdist_wheel (wheel packages) instead.
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Deprecated
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+* The distutils ``bdist_wininst`` command is now deprecated, use
+ ``bdist_wheel`` (wheel packages) instead.
+ (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`37481`.)
+
* Deprecated methods ``getchildren()`` and ``getiterator()`` in
the :mod:`~xml.etree.ElementTree` module emit now a
:exc:`DeprecationWarning` instead of :exc:`PendingDeprecationWarning`.