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| author | Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> | 2021-03-24 15:26:56 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-03-24 15:26:56 (GMT) |
| commit | 9cb31d671646a5ff0901f79d2d61022621447190 (patch) | |
| tree | 07877b815e17e8def80ed4e70c385b4b3a23b5af /Doc/whatsnew | |
| parent | 3ba3d513b1e3c63d09cb798b982a9e6c369cea4c (diff) | |
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bpo-42137: have ModuleType.__repr__ prefer __spec__ over module_repr() (GH-24953)
This is to work towards the removal of the use of module_repr() in Python 3.12 (documented as deprecated since 3.4).
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst index d4335eb..b679180 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.10.rst @@ -1004,6 +1004,12 @@ Deprecated :meth:`~importlib.abc.Loader.exec_module` is preferred. (Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`26131`.) +* The import system now uses the ``__spec__`` attribute on modules before + falling back on :meth:`~importlib.abc.Loader.module_repr` for a module's + ``__repr__()`` method. Removal of the use of ``module_repr()`` is scheduled + for Python 3.12. + (Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`42137`.) + * ``sqlite3.OptimizedUnicode`` has been undocumented and obsolete since Python 3.3, when it was made an alias to :class:`str`. It is now deprecated, scheduled for removal in Python 3.12. |