gh-68966: Deprecate the mailcap module#91951
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vstinner commented Apr 26, 2022
mimetypes is not a replacement, but provide a "similar" feature. mailcap opens a file with an application, whereas mimetypes gets the MIME type of a file. On Linux, the |
vstinner commented Apr 26, 2022
I updated the doc to mention PEP 594 for the rationale. I didn't mention PEP 594 in the deprecation message. |
vstinner commented Apr 26, 2022
The Steering Council decided to deprecate the mailcap module as part of PEP 594, so in Python 3.11: |
Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst Outdated
| be able to parse Python 3.10 or newer. See the :pep:`617` (New PEG parser for | ||
| CPython). (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`40360`.) | ||
| * The :mod:`mailcap` module is now deprecated and will be removed in Python |
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Maybe list this with the other two PEP 594 ones below?
hugovk commented Apr 26, 2022
For the others, the documentation changes was done separately (and also list on For example, see #31891 and #31984. The SC also wanted to leave out the targeted removal date in docs (but not warnings): #31891 (comment) Please could you split the PR? |
vstinner commented Apr 26, 2022
@hugovk: I updated my PR. Would you mind to review it again? |
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| (Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`47061`.) | ||
| (Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`47061` and Victor Stinner in | ||
| :gh:`68966`.) |
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Looking at the others, we should include these 3.11.rst changes in the 2nd PR that'll do the code warnings, because we don't want to backport this bit.
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I prefer to modify the backport but push all changes at once in the main branch.
| _DEPRECATION_MSG= ('The{name} module is deprecated and will be removed in ' | ||
| 'Python{remove}. See the mimetypes module for an ' | ||
| 'alternative.') | ||
| warnings._deprecated(__name__, _DEPRECATION_MSG, remove=(3, 13)) |
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Let's include this in a 2nd, non-backport PR.
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| withwarnings.catch_warnings(): | ||
| # mailcap is deprecated | ||
| warnings.simplefilter('ignore', DeprecationWarning) | ||
| importmailcap |
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Also changes to this file for the 2nd PR.
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vstinner commented Apr 26, 2022
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