STINNER Victor <vstin...@python.org> added the comment:
> URLOpener has been deprecated since Python3.3 > (https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/urllib/request.py#L1703-L1705) > maybe it should just be removed from the codebase? It emits a DeprecationWarning since at least Python 3.6, so yes, it's now fine to remove the feature. It's also documented as deprecated in: https://docs.python.org/dev/library/urllib.request.html#urllib.request.URLopener Maybe we kept it longer than usual because it was common in Python 2.7 to use it, and we tried to keep support for code base compatible with Python 2 and Python 3? I don't know. I'm fine with removing the class in Python 3.10, but IMO it's too late for Python 3.9 (feature freeze is today). ---------- nosy: +vstinner _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue40673> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
