[issue39352] Remove the formatter module, deprecated since Python 3.4

STINNER Victor added the comment: I'm no longer sure that it's a good idea to remove a module from the stdlib without providing a solution for the few people relying on it. I removed dummy_threading module in Python 3.9 and obviously it broke an application (bodhi): https://bugzilla.redhat.c

[issue39352] Remove the formatter module, deprecated since Python 3.4

Brett Cannon added the comment: This is already covered in https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0594/ for removal in 3.10, so probably best to help get that PEP accepted first then deal with the removal. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue39352] Remove the formatter module, deprecated since Python 3.4

STINNER Victor added the comment: I did a quick & dirty code search in GitHub to check for "import formatter". There is no "import formatter" in the 5 first pages of code search in the Python programming language. IMHO it seems that this module is basically unused. To be honest, I even didn'

[issue39352] Remove the formatter module, deprecated since Python 3.4

Change by STINNER Victor : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +17419 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/18023 ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue39352] Remove the formatter module, deprecated since Python 3.4

New submission from STINNER Victor : The formatter module has been deprecated in Python 3.4 by bpo-18716: commit 1448ecf470013cee63c0682f615c5256928dc6b0. In 2014, its removal was scheduled in Python 3.6: commit 29636aeaccaf6a1412e0dc7c230db29cccf68381. But bpo-25407 cancelled the removal fr