A few days ago, Terry J. Reedy created the issue about the formatter module.
(https://bugs.python.org/issue42299)
The issue is mainly about testing code but also discussing the removal of
the module.
I noticed that the formatter module was deprecated in 3.4 and it was
originally scheduled to be re
Hi,
I proposed https://bugs.python.org/issue39352 to remove the formatter
module. It's deprecated since Python 3.4. The main reason why it's
still around is the PEP 4 rule:
"In order to facilitate writing code that works in both Python 2 & 3
simultaneously, any module that exists in both Python 3
