changeset: 76899:59870239813c user: Brett Cannon date: Sun May 13 13:04:21 2012 -0400 files: Doc/library/imp.rst Misc/NEWS description: Issue #13959: Document imp.find_module/load_module as deprecated. The code itself does not raise a DeprecationWarning as the functions are technically fine, it's just a bad API. Unfortunately experience has shown that the terrible API has been exposed in various places, necessitating that it stick around probably until py4k comes around since it is such a shift to move over to importlib.find_loader(). diff -r 38d7d944370e -r 59870239813c Doc/library/imp.rst --- a/Doc/library/imp.rst Sun May 13 11:19:23 2012 -0500 +++ b/Doc/library/imp.rst Sun May 13 13:04:21 2012 -0400 @@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ then use :func:`find_module` with the *path* argument set to ``P.__path__``. When *P* itself has a dotted name, apply this recipe recursively. + .. deprecated:: 3.3 + Use :func:`importlib.find_loader` instead. + .. function:: load_module(name, file, pathname, description) @@ -93,6 +96,10 @@ it was not ``None``, even when an exception is raised. This is best done using a :keyword:`try` ... :keyword:`finally` statement. + .. deprecated:: 3.3 + Unneeded as loaders should be used to load modules and + :func:`find_module` is deprecated. + .. function:: new_module(name) diff -r 38d7d944370e -r 59870239813c Misc/NEWS --- a/Misc/NEWS Sun May 13 11:19:23 2012 -0500 +++ b/Misc/NEWS Sun May 13 13:04:21 2012 -0400 @@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ - Issue #14366: Support lzma compression in zip files. Patch by Serhiy Storchaka. -- Issue #13959: Introduce importlib.find_loader(). +- Issue #13959: Introduce importlib.find_loader() and document + imp.find_module/load_module as deprecated. - Issue #14082: shutil.copy2() now copies extended attributes, if possible. Patch by Hynek Schlawack.