bpo-29196: Removed old-deprecated classes Plist, Dict and _InternalDict (#488)

in the plistlib module.  Dict values in the result of functions
readPlist() and readPlistFromBytes() are now exact dicts.

2 files changed, 14 insertions, 24 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/plistlib.rst b/Doc/library/plistlib.rst
index 9ba2266..7d306a2 100644
--- a/Doc/library/plistlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/plistlib.rst
@@ -133,14 +133,12 @@ The following functions are deprecated:
    This function calls :func:`load` to do the actual work, see the documentation
    of :func:`that function <load>` for an explanation of the keyword arguments.
 
-   .. note::
-
-      Dict values in the result have a ``__getattr__`` method that defers
-      to ``__getitem_``. This means that you can use attribute access to
-      access items of these dictionaries.
-
    .. deprecated:: 3.4 Use :func:`load` instead.
 
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.7
+      Dict values in the result are now normal dicts.  You no longer can use
+      attribute access to access items of these dictionaries.
+
 
 .. function:: writePlist(rootObject, pathOrFile)
 
@@ -156,14 +154,12 @@ The following functions are deprecated:
 
    See :func:`load` for a description of the keyword arguments.
 
-   .. note::
-
-      Dict values in the result have a ``__getattr__`` method that defers
-      to ``__getitem_``. This means that you can use attribute access to
-      access items of these dictionaries.
-
    .. deprecated:: 3.4 Use :func:`loads` instead.
 
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.7
+      Dict values in the result are now normal dicts.  You no longer can use
+      attribute access to access items of these dictionaries.
+
 
 .. function:: writePlistToBytes(rootObject)
 
@@ -174,18 +170,6 @@ The following functions are deprecated:
 
 The following classes are available:
 
-.. class:: Dict([dict]):
-
-   Return an extended mapping object with the same value as dictionary
-   *dict*.
-
-   This class is a subclass of :class:`dict` where attribute access can
-   be used to access items. That is, ``aDict.key`` is the same as
-   ``aDict['key']`` for getting, setting and deleting items in the mapping.
-
-   .. deprecated:: 3.0
-
-
 .. class:: Data(data)
 
    Return a "data" wrapper object around the bytes object *data*.  This is used
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
index 8e5ac52..c305e5a 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
@@ -299,6 +299,12 @@ API and Feature Removals
   longer take keyword arguments.  The first argument of :func:`int` can now
   be passes only as positional argument.
 
+* Removed previously deprecated in Python 2.4 classes ``Plist``, ``Dict`` and
+  ``_InternalDict`` in the :mod:`plistlib` module.  Dict values in the result
+  of functions :func:`~plistlib.readPlist` and
+  :func:`~plistlib.readPlistFromBytes` are now normal dicts.  You no longer
+  can use attribute access to access items of these dictionaries.
+
 
 Porting to Python 3.7
 =====================