gh-94226: Remove the locale.format() function (#94229)

Remove the locale.format() function, deprecated in Python
3.7: use locale.format_string() instead.

Remove TestFormatPatternArg test case: it is irrelevant for
locale.format_string() which accepts complex formats.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/locale.py b/Lib/locale.py
index 7a7694e..c2c7a04 100644
--- a/Lib/locale.py
+++ b/Lib/locale.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ import functools
 # trying the import.  So __all__ is also fiddled at the end of the file.
 __all__ = ["getlocale", "getdefaultlocale", "getpreferredencoding", "Error",
            "setlocale", "resetlocale", "localeconv", "strcoll", "strxfrm",
-           "str", "atof", "atoi", "format", "format_string", "currency",
+           "str", "atof", "atoi", "format_string", "currency",
            "normalize", "LC_CTYPE", "LC_COLLATE", "LC_TIME", "LC_MONETARY",
            "LC_NUMERIC", "LC_ALL", "CHAR_MAX", "getencoding"]
 
@@ -247,21 +247,6 @@ def format_string(f, val, grouping=False, monetary=False):
 
     return new_f % val
 
-def format(percent, value, grouping=False, monetary=False, *additional):
-    """Deprecated, use format_string instead."""
-    import warnings
-    warnings.warn(
-        "This method will be removed in a future version of Python. "
-        "Use 'locale.format_string()' instead.",
-        DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2
-    )
-
-    match = _percent_re.match(percent)
-    if not match or len(match.group())!= len(percent):
-        raise ValueError(("format() must be given exactly one %%char "
-                         "format specifier, %s not valid") % repr(percent))
-    return _format(percent, value, grouping, monetary, *additional)
-
 def currency(val, symbol=True, grouping=False, international=False):
     """Formats val according to the currency settings
     in the current locale."""