Remove the 'strict' argument to Parser, deprecated since 2.4.

diff --git a/Doc/library/email.parser.rst b/Doc/library/email.parser.rst
index 77a0b698d1825705f8971c1d2a9560dd8cac6133..8da0d74df16fdaed1c9d246502bf5dd0d37ee0fb 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/library/email.parser.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/email.parser.rst
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ as a string. :class:`HeaderParser` has the same API as the :class:`Parser`
 class.
 
 
-.. class:: Parser(_class=email.message.Message, strict=None)
+.. class:: Parser(_class=email.message.Message)
 
    The constructor for the :class:`Parser` class takes an optional argument
    *_class*.  This must be a callable factory (such as a function or a class), and
@@ -110,13 +110,8 @@ class.
    :class:`~email.message.Message` (see :mod:`email.message`).  The factory will
    be called without arguments.
 
-   The optional *strict* flag is ignored.
-
-   .. deprecated:: 2.4
-      Because the :class:`Parser` class is a backward compatible API wrapper
-      around the new-in-Python 2.4 :class:`FeedParser`, *all* parsing is
-      effectively non-strict.  You should simply stop passing a *strict* flag to
-      the :class:`Parser` constructor.
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.2
+      Removed the *strict* argument that was deprecated in 2.4.
 
    The other public :class:`Parser` methods are:
 

diff --git a/Lib/email/parser.py b/Lib/email/parser.py
index 6caaff53ad40897b6fbc3c024e8365679dfc7fea..ef051faf13c023a89323e4ca2046991f6fd9e195 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/email/parser.py
+++ b/Lib/email/parser.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from email.message import Message
 
 \f
 class Parser:
-    def __init__(self, *args, **kws):
+    def __init__(self, _class=Message):
         """Parser of RFC 2822 and MIME email messages.
 
         Creates an in-memory object tree representing the email message, which
@@ -31,27 +31,7 @@ class Parser:
         must be created.  This class must have a constructor that can take
         zero arguments.  Default is Message.Message.
         """
-        if len(args) >= 1:
-            if '_class' in kws:
-                raise TypeError("Multiple values for keyword arg '_class'")
-            kws['_class'] = args[0]
-        if len(args) == 2:
-            if 'strict' in kws:
-                raise TypeError("Multiple values for keyword arg 'strict'")
-            kws['strict'] = args[1]
-        if len(args) > 2:
-            raise TypeError('Too many arguments')
-        if '_class' in kws:
-            self._class = kws['_class']
-            del kws['_class']
-        else:
-            self._class = Message
-        if 'strict' in kws:
-            warnings.warn("'strict' argument is deprecated (and ignored)",
-                          DeprecationWarning, 2)
-            del kws['strict']
-        if kws:
-            raise TypeError('Unexpected keyword arguments')
+        self._class = _class
 
     def parse(self, fp, headersonly=False):
         """Create a message structure from the data in a file.

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 23b5e6a481bdc00a67315f3564f65e1603ecb5ee..e8efa0e81cb4261a9750974e0073bda77f6203bb 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -87,6 +87,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Removed the 'strict' argument to email.parser.Parser, which has been
+  deprecated since Python 2.4.
+
 - Issue #11256: Fix inspect.getcallargs on functions that take only keyword
   arguments.