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| author | Victor Stinner <vstinner@python.org> | 2019-12-09 13:09:14 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-12-09 13:09:14 (GMT) |
| commit | 0131aba5ae20d704b972ecd2ef0fc6c9e370a1b3 (patch) | |
| tree | 2b0d2377452d9be8d09b46f38fffbceb4692110d /Doc | |
| parent | a1838ec2592e5082c75c77888f2a7a3eb21133e5 (diff) | |
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bpo-38916: array.array: remove fromstring() and tostring() (GH-17487)
array.array: Remove tostring() and fromstring() methods. They were
aliases to tobytes() and frombytes(), deprecated since Python 3.2.
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/array.rst | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst | 5 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/array.rst b/Doc/library/array.rst index 2ae2a07..c9a9b1d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/array.rst +++ b/Doc/library/array.rst @@ -169,11 +169,6 @@ The following data items and methods are also supported: a.append(x)`` except that if there is a type error, the array is unchanged. -.. method:: array.fromstring() - - Deprecated alias for :meth:`frombytes`. - - .. method:: array.fromunicode(s) Extends this array with data from the given unicode string. The array must @@ -231,11 +226,6 @@ The following data items and methods are also supported: Convert the array to an ordinary list with the same items. -.. method:: array.tostring() - - Deprecated alias for :meth:`tobytes`. - - .. method:: array.tounicode() Convert the array to a unicode string. The array must be a type ``'u'`` array; diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst index 1cd96ef..7cf49bf 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst @@ -279,6 +279,11 @@ Deprecated Removed ======= +* :class:`array.array`: ``tostring()`` and ``fromstring()`` methods have been + removed. They were aliases to ``tobytes()`` and ``frombytes()``, deprecated + since Python 3.2. + (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`38916`.) + * The abstract base classes in :mod:`collections.abc` no longer are exposed in the regular :mod:`collections` module. This will help create a clearer distinction between the concrete classes and the abstract |