bpo-40182: Remove the _field_types attribute of the NamedTuple class (GH-19368)

2 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/typing.rst b/Doc/library/typing.rst
index 58ae184..fa13c07 100644
--- a/Doc/library/typing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/typing.rst
@@ -960,13 +960,14 @@ The module defines the following classes, functions and decorators:
       Added support for default values, methods, and docstrings.
 
    .. versionchanged:: 3.8
-      Deprecated the ``_field_types`` attribute in favor of the more
-      standard ``__annotations__`` attribute which has the same information.
-
-   .. versionchanged:: 3.8
       The ``_field_types`` and ``__annotations__`` attributes are
       now regular dictionaries instead of instances of ``OrderedDict``.
 
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.9
+      Removed the ``_field_types`` attribute in favor of the more
+      standard ``__annotations__`` attribute which has the same information.
+
+
 .. class:: TypedDict(dict)
 
    A simple typed namespace. At runtime it is equivalent to
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
index fc48cd6..ef499f5 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
@@ -734,6 +734,11 @@ Removed
   defining ``COUNT_ALLOCS`` macro.
   (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`39489`.)
 
+* The ``_field_types`` attribute of the :class:`typing.NamedTuple` class
+  has been removed.  It was deprecated deprecated since Python 3.8.  Use
+  the ``__annotations__`` attribute instead.
+  (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`40182`.)
+
 
 Porting to Python 3.9
 =====================