Added a deprecation warning to the 'new' module.

diff --git a/Lib/new.py b/Lib/new.py
index 99a1c3fdc81908c70fb01bb1f9bcf864f4ea461b..a3298b67ad5255c39ec43db3dfaf75ab34f01528 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/new.py
+++ b/Lib/new.py
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
 This module is no longer required except for backward compatibility.
 Objects of most types can now be created by calling the type object.
 """
+from warnings import warn as _warn
+_warn("The 'new' module is not supported in 3.x, use the 'types' module "
+    "instead.", DeprecationWarning, 2)
 
 from types import ClassType as classobj
 from types import FunctionType as function