[issue36409] plistlib old API should be removed

Change by Jon Janzen : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Py

[issue36409] plistlib old API should be removed

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: New changeset ce81a925ef2d466b0d801deaba9af44a0dfc2aa1 by Ronald Oussoren (Jon Janzen) in branch 'master': bpo-36409: Remove old plistlib API deprecated in 3.4 (GH-15615) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ce81a925ef2d466b0d801deaba9af44a0dfc2aa1 ---

[issue36409] plistlib old API should be removed

Change by Jon Janzen : -- pull_requests: +15288 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/15615 ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue36409] plistlib old API should be removed

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Yes, this is mainly about modules, but in general we try to be more careful with removing features that do not have alternatives in 2.7. In this particular case, the benefit from removing the deprecated functions in 3.8 instead of 3.9 is small, but this wi

[issue36409] plistlib old API should be removed

Jon Janzen added the comment: Ah, I misinterpreted PEP4. I thought it only applied to modules as a whole (e.g. plistlib) rather than individual functionality within that module. I'll close my PR and wait until 3.9 is accepting patches -- versions: +Python 3.9 -Python 3.8 ___

[issue36409] plistlib old API should be removed

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: It was preserved for compatibility with Python 2.7. From PEP 4: "In order to facilitate writing code that works in both Python 2 & 3 simultaneously, any module that exists in both Python 3.5 and Python 2.7 will not be removed from the standard library unti

[issue36409] plistlib old API should be removed

Change by Karthikeyan Singaravelan : -- components: +macOS nosy: +ned.deily, ronaldoussoren, serhiy.storchaka ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue36409] plistlib old API should be removed

Change by Jon Janzen : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +12466 stage: -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue36409] plistlib old API should be removed

New submission from Jon Janzen : Per the documentation and in-line code warnings, the old API for plistlib was deprecated in version 3.4. My understanding is that deprecated functionality is to be removed in the next major version, so this code is long overdue for removal. -- compone