From: Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 22:47:58 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Remove the sre module.
X-Git-Tag: v3.0b1~381
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cf3520c2bf7a50fdd2e0251f435c9ebce180cfd2;p=python

Remove the sre module.
---

diff --git a/Lib/sre.py b/Lib/sre.py
deleted file mode 100644
index c04576bafa..0000000000
--- a/Lib/sre.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-"""This file is only retained for backwards compatibility.
-It will be removed in the future.  sre was moved to re in version 2.5.
-"""
-
-import warnings
-warnings.warn("The sre module is deprecated, please import re.",
-              DeprecationWarning, 2)
-
-from re import *
-from re import __all__
-
-# old pickles expect the _compile() reconstructor in this module
-from re import _compile
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_re.py b/Lib/test/test_re.py
index 7aa69969c1..11677f35f5 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_re.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_re.py
@@ -434,16 +434,6 @@ class ReTests(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(pat.match(p) is not None, True)
         self.assertEqual(pat.match(p).span(), (0,256))
 
-    def test_pickling(self):
-        import pickle
-        self.pickle_test(pickle)
-        # old pickles expect the _compile() reconstructor in sre module
-        import warnings
-        with catch_warning():
-            warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", "The sre module is deprecated",
-                                    DeprecationWarning)
-            from sre import _compile
-
     def pickle_test(self, pickle):
         oldpat = re.compile('a(?:b|(c|e){1,2}?|d)+?(.)')
         s = pickle.dumps(oldpat)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 47eb5c2f2e..c3d9cc5219 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ Extension Modules
 Library
 -------
 
+- The sre module has been removed.
+
 - The PixMapWrapper module has been renamed to pixmapwrapper.
 
 - The Queue module has been renamed to queue.