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| author | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2023-08-16 20:35:35 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2023-08-16 20:35:35 (GMT) |
| commit | 882cb79afa2cb11b180ef699fd5cf038e72f6c85 (patch) | |
| tree | 5ceb212dacf1ba5529aabb9ad5ac2791e8446db2 /Doc/whatsnew | |
| parent | fb8fe377c4ddaea24ea6aa0a8f5d036986373d39 (diff) | |
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gh-56166: Deprecate passing confusing positional arguments in re functions (#107778)
Deprecate passing optional arguments maxsplit, count and flags in
module-level functions re.split(), re.sub() and re.subn() as positional.
They should only be passed by keyword.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst index 84ffd84..519dee5 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst @@ -832,6 +832,13 @@ Porting to Python 3.13 Deprecated ---------- +* Passing optional arguments *maxsplit*, *count* and *flags* in module-level + functions :func:`re.split`, :func:`re.sub` and :func:`re.subn` as positional + arguments is now deprecated. + In future Python versions these parameters will be + :ref:`keyword-only <keyword-only_parameter>`. + (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :gh:`56166`.) + * Deprecate the old ``Py_UNICODE`` and ``PY_UNICODE_TYPE`` types: use directly the :c:type:`wchar_t` type instead. Since Python 3.3, ``Py_UNICODE`` and ``PY_UNICODE_TYPE`` are just aliases to :c:type:`wchar_t`. |