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| author | Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> | 2013-06-16 17:13:40 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> | 2013-06-16 17:13:40 (GMT) |
| commit | e4f41deccf94ccc798b1eb1f44657ade66669a60 (patch) | |
| tree | 8f47ca73224c628f4afcebb9dd989cac73d0f8d1 /Doc | |
| parent | 39295e7a55d03b9ef31c0d0dd27d129b1ad5a695 (diff) | |
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Issue #17177: The imp module is pending deprecation.
To make sure there is no issue with code that is both Python 2 and 3
compatible, there are no plans to remove the module any sooner than
Python 4 (unless the community moves to Python 3 solidly before then).
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/imp.rst | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst | 3 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/imp.rst b/Doc/library/imp.rst index ab79be3..eae2c70 100644 --- a/Doc/library/imp.rst +++ b/Doc/library/imp.rst @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ ================================================================ .. deprecated:: 3.4 - The :mod:`imp` package has been deprecated in favor of :mod:`importlib`. + The :mod:`imp` package is pending deprecation in favor of :mod:`importlib`. .. module:: imp :synopsis: Access the implementation of the import statement. @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ file paths. Return the :pep:`3147` magic tag string matching this version of Python's magic number, as returned by :func:`get_magic`. - .. note:: + .. deprecated:: 3.4 You may use :attr:`sys.implementation.cache_tag` directly starting in Python 3.3. @@ -355,6 +355,9 @@ to indicate the search result of :func:`find_module`. ``None`` is inserted into ``sys.path_importer_cache`` instead of an instance of :class:`NullImporter`. + .. deprecated:: 3.4 + Insert ``None`` into ``sys.path_importer_cache`` instead. + .. _examples-imp: diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index 92b2058..fbe4b77 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -230,6 +230,9 @@ Deprecated Python modules, functions and methods :meth:`importlib.abc.Loader.init_module_attrs` allows subclasses of a loader to more easily customize module loading. +* The :mod:`imp` module is pending deprecation. To keep compatibility with + Python 2/3 code bases, the module's removal is currently not scheduled. + Deprecated functions and types of the C API ------------------------------------------- |