Deprecations

Pending Removal in Python 3.14

• The import system:

  • Setting __loader__ on a module while failing to set __spec__.loader is deprecated. In Python 3.14, __loader__ will cease to be set or taken into consideration by the import system or the standard library.

• argparse: The type, choices, and metavar parameters of argparse.BooleanOptionalAction are deprecated and will be removed in 3.14. (Contributed by Nikita Sobolev in gh-92248.)

• ast: The following features have been deprecated in documentation since Python 3.8, now cause a DeprecationWarning to be emitted at runtime when they are accessed or used, and will be removed in Python 3.14:

  • ast.Num

  • ast.Str

  • ast.Bytes

  • ast.NameConstant

  • ast.Ellipsis

  Use ast.Constant instead. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in gh-90953.)

• asyncio:

  • The child watcher classes MultiLoopChildWatcher, FastChildWatcher, AbstractChildWatcher and SafeChildWatcher are deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.14. (Contributed by Kumar Aditya in gh-94597.)

  • asyncio.set_child_watcher(), asyncio.get_child_watcher(), asyncio.AbstractEventLoopPolicy.set_child_watcher() and asyncio.AbstractEventLoopPolicy.get_child_watcher() are deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.14. (Contributed by Kumar Aditya in gh-94597.)

  • The get_event_loop() method of the default event loop policy now emits a DeprecationWarning if there is no current event loop set and it decides to create one. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka and Guido van Rossum in gh-100160.)

• collections.abc: Deprecated ByteString. Prefer Sequence or Buffer. For use in typing, prefer a union, like bytes | bytearray, or collections.abc.Buffer. (Contributed by Shantanu Jain in gh-91896.)

• email: Deprecated the isdst parameter in email.utils.localtime(). (Contributed by Alan Williams in gh-72346.)

• importlib.abc deprecated classes:

  • importlib.abc.ResourceReader

  • importlib.abc.Traversable

  • importlib.abc.TraversableResources

  Use importlib.resources.abc classes instead:

  • importlib.resources.abc.Traversable

  • importlib.resources.abc.TraversableResources

  (Contributed by Jason R. Coombs and Hugo van Kemenade in gh-93963.)

• itertools had undocumented, inefficient, historically buggy, and inconsistent support for copy, deepcopy, and pickle operations. This will be removed in 3.14 for a significant reduction in code volume and maintenance burden. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in gh-101588.)

• multiprocessing: The default start method will change to a safer one on Linux, BSDs, and other non-macOS POSIX platforms where 'fork' is currently the default (gh-84559). Adding a runtime warning about this was deemed too disruptive as the majority of code is not expected to care. Use the get_context() or set_start_method() APIs to explicitly specify when your code requires 'fork'. See Contexts and start methods.

• pathlib: is_relative_to() and relative_to(): passing additional arguments is deprecated.

• pkgutil: find_loader() and get_loader() now raise DeprecationWarning; use importlib.util.find_spec() instead. (Contributed by Nikita Sobolev in gh-97850.)

• pty:

  • master_open(): use pty.openpty().

  • slave_open(): use pty.openpty().

• sqlite3:

  • version and version_info.

  • execute() and executemany() if named placeholders are used and parameters is a sequence instead of a dict.

  • date and datetime adapter, date and timestamp converter: see the sqlite3 documentation for suggested replacement recipes.

• types.CodeType: Accessing co_lnotab was deprecated in PEP 626 since 3.10 and was planned to be removed in 3.12, but it only got a proper DeprecationWarning in 3.12. May be removed in 3.14. (Contributed by Nikita Sobolev in gh-101866.)

• typing: ByteString, deprecated since Python 3.9, now causes a DeprecationWarning to be emitted when it is used.

• urllib: urllib.parse.Quoter is deprecated: it was not intended to be a public API. (Contributed by Gregory P. Smith in gh-88168.)

Pending Removal in Python 3.15

• The import system:

  • Setting __cached__ on a module while failing to set __spec__.cached is deprecated. In Python 3.15, __cached__ will cease to be set or take into consideration by the import system or standard library. (gh-97879)

  • Setting __package__ on a module while failing to set __spec__.parent is deprecated. In Python 3.15, __package__ will cease to be set or take into consideration by the import system or standard library. (gh-97879)

• ctypes:

  • The undocumented ctypes.SetPointerType() function has been deprecated since Python 3.13.

• http.server:

  • The obsolete and rarely used CGIHTTPRequestHandler has been deprecated since Python 3.13. No direct replacement exists. Anything is better than CGI to interface a web server with a request handler.

  • The --cgi flag to the python -m http.server command-line interface has been deprecated since Python 3.13.

• locale:

  • The getdefaultlocale() function has been deprecated since Python 3.11. Its removal was originally planned for Python 3.13 (gh-90817), but has been postponed to Python 3.15. Use getlocale(), setlocale(), and getencoding() instead. (Contributed by Hugo van Kemenade in gh-111187.)

• pathlib:

  • PurePath.is_reserved() has been deprecated since Python 3.13. Use os.path.isreserved() to detect reserved paths on Windows.

• platform:

  • java_ver() has been deprecated since Python 3.13. This function is only useful for Jython support, has a confusing API, and is largely untested.

• threading:

  • RLock() will take no arguments in Python 3.15. Passing any arguments has been deprecated since Python 3.14, as the Python version does not permit any arguments, but the C version allows any number of positional or keyword arguments, ignoring every argument.

• typing:

  • The undocumented keyword argument syntax for creating NamedTuple classes (e.g. Point = NamedTuple("Point", x=int, y=int)) has been deprecated since Python 3.13. Use the class-based syntax or the functional syntax instead.

  • The typing.no_type_check_decorator() decorator function has been deprecated since Python 3.13. After eight years in the typing module, it has yet to be supported by any major type checker.

• wave:

  • The getmark(), setmark(), and getmarkers() methods of the Wave_read and Wave_write classes have been deprecated since Python 3.13.

Pending Removal in Python 3.16

• builtins:

  • Bitwise inversion on boolean types, ~True or ~False has been deprecated since Python 3.12, as it produces surprising and unintuitive results (-2 and -1). Use not x instead for the logical negation of a Boolean. In the rare case that you need the bitwise inversion of the underlying integer, convert to int explicitly (~int(x)).

• array:

  • The 'u' format code (wchar_t) has been deprecated in documentation since Python 3.3 and at runtime since Python 3.13. Use the 'w' format code (Py_UCS4) for Unicode characters instead.

• shutil:

  • The ExecError exception has been deprecated since Python 3.14. It has not been used by any function in shutil since Python 3.4, and is now an alias of RuntimeError.

• symtable:

  • The Class.get_methods method has been deprecated since Python 3.14.

• sys:

  • The _enablelegacywindowsfsencoding() function has been deprecated since Python 3.13. Use the PYTHONLEGACYWINDOWSFSENCODING environment variable instead.

• tarfile:

  • The undocumented and unused TarFile.tarfile attribute has been deprecated since Python 3.13.

Pending Removal in Future Versions

The following APIs will be removed in the future, although there is currently no date scheduled for their removal.

• argparse: Nesting argument groups and nesting mutually exclusive groups are deprecated.

• array’s 'u' format code (gh-57281)

• builtins:

  • bool(NotImplemented).

  • Generators: throw(type, exc, tb) and athrow(type, exc, tb) signature is deprecated: use throw(exc) and athrow(exc) instead, the single argument signature.

  • Currently Python accepts numeric literals immediately followed by keywords, for example 0in x, 1or x, 0if 1else 2. It allows confusing and ambiguous expressions like [0x1for x in y] (which can be interpreted as [0x1 for x in y] or [0x1f or x in y]). A syntax warning is raised if the numeric literal is immediately followed by one of keywords and, else, for, if, in, is and or. In a future release it will be changed to a syntax error. (gh-87999)

  • Support for __index__() and __int__() method returning non-int type: these methods will be required to return an instance of a strict subclass of int.

  • Support for __float__() method returning a strict subclass of float: these methods will be required to return an instance of float.

  • Support for __complex__() method returning a strict subclass of complex: these methods will be required to return an instance of complex.

  • Delegation of int() to __trunc__() method.

  • Passing a complex number as the real or imag argument in the complex() constructor is now deprecated; it should only be passed as a single positional argument. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in gh-109218.)

• calendar: calendar.January and calendar.February constants are deprecated and replaced by calendar.JANUARY and calendar.FEBRUARY. (Contributed by Prince Roshan in gh-103636.)

• codeobject.co_lnotab: use the codeobject.co_lines() method instead.

• datetime:

  • utcnow(): use datetime.datetime.now(tz=datetime.UTC).

  • utcfromtimestamp(): use datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp, tz=datetime.UTC).

• gettext: Plural value must be an integer.

• importlib:

  • load_module() method: use exec_module() instead.

  • cache_from_source() debug_override parameter is deprecated: use the optimization parameter instead.

• importlib.metadata:

  • EntryPoints tuple interface.

  • Implicit None on return values.

• logging: the warn() method has been deprecated since Python 3.3, use warning() instead.

• mailbox: Use of StringIO input and text mode is deprecated, use BytesIO and binary mode instead.

• os: Calling os.register_at_fork() in multi-threaded process.

• pydoc.ErrorDuringImport: A tuple value for exc_info parameter is deprecated, use an exception instance.

• re: More strict rules are now applied for numerical group references and group names in regular expressions. Only sequence of ASCII digits is now accepted as a numerical reference. The group name in bytes patterns and replacement strings can now only contain ASCII letters and digits and underscore. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in gh-91760.)

• sre_compile, sre_constants and sre_parse modules.

• shutil: rmtree()»s onerror parameter is deprecated in Python 3.12; use the onexc parameter instead.

• ssl options and protocols:

  • ssl.SSLContext without protocol argument is deprecated.

  • ssl.SSLContext: set_npn_protocols() and selected_npn_protocol() are deprecated: use ALPN instead.

  • ssl.OP_NO_SSL* options

  • ssl.OP_NO_TLS* options

  • ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3

  • ssl.PROTOCOL_TLS

  • ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1

  • ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1_1

  • ssl.PROTOCOL_TLSv1_2

  • ssl.TLSVersion.SSLv3

  • ssl.TLSVersion.TLSv1

  • ssl.TLSVersion.TLSv1_1

• sysconfig.is_python_build() check_home parameter is deprecated and ignored.

• threading methods:

  • threading.Condition.notifyAll(): use notify_all().

  • threading.Event.isSet(): use is_set().

  • threading.Thread.isDaemon(), threading.Thread.setDaemon(): use threading.Thread.daemon attribute.

  • threading.Thread.getName(), threading.Thread.setName(): use threading.Thread.name attribute.

  • threading.currentThread(): use threading.current_thread().

  • threading.activeCount(): use threading.active_count().

• typing.Text (gh-92332).

• unittest.IsolatedAsyncioTestCase: it is deprecated to return a value that is not None from a test case.

• urllib.parse deprecated functions: urlparse() instead

  • splitattr()

  • splithost()

  • splitnport()

  • splitpasswd()

  • splitport()

  • splitquery()

  • splittag()

  • splittype()

  • splituser()

  • splitvalue()

  • to_bytes()

• urllib.request: URLopener and FancyURLopener style of invoking requests is deprecated. Use newer urlopen() functions and methods.

• wsgiref: SimpleHandler.stdout.write() should not do partial writes.

• xml.etree.ElementTree: Testing the truth value of an Element is deprecated. In a future release it will always return True. Prefer explicit len(elem) or elem is not None tests instead.

• zipimport.zipimporter.load_module() is deprecated: use exec_module() instead.

C API Deprecations

Pending Removal in Python 3.14

• The ma_version_tag field in PyDictObject for extension modules (PEP 699; gh-101193).

• Creating immutable types with mutable bases (gh-95388).

• Functions to configure Python’s initialization, deprecated in Python 3.11:

  • PySys_SetArgvEx(): Set PyConfig.argv instead.

  • PySys_SetArgv(): Set PyConfig.argv instead.

  • Py_SetProgramName(): Set PyConfig.program_name instead.

  • Py_SetPythonHome(): Set PyConfig.home instead.

  The Py_InitializeFromConfig() API should be used with PyConfig instead.

• Global configuration variables:

  • Py_DebugFlag: Use PyConfig.parser_debug instead.

  • Py_VerboseFlag: Use PyConfig.verbose instead.

  • Py_QuietFlag: Use PyConfig.quiet instead.

  • Py_InteractiveFlag: Use PyConfig.interactive instead.

  • Py_InspectFlag: Use PyConfig.inspect instead.

  • Py_OptimizeFlag: Use PyConfig.optimization_level instead.

  • Py_NoSiteFlag: Use PyConfig.site_import instead.

  • Py_BytesWarningFlag: Use PyConfig.bytes_warning instead.

  • Py_FrozenFlag: Use PyConfig.pathconfig_warnings instead.

  • Py_IgnoreEnvironmentFlag: Use PyConfig.use_environment instead.

  • Py_DontWriteBytecodeFlag: Use PyConfig.write_bytecode instead.

  • Py_NoUserSiteDirectory: Use PyConfig.user_site_directory instead.

  • Py_UnbufferedStdioFlag: Use PyConfig.buffered_stdio instead.

  • Py_HashRandomizationFlag: Use PyConfig.use_hash_seed and PyConfig.hash_seed instead.

  • Py_IsolatedFlag: Use PyConfig.isolated instead.

  • Py_LegacyWindowsFSEncodingFlag: Use PyPreConfig.legacy_windows_fs_encoding instead.

  • Py_LegacyWindowsStdioFlag: Use PyConfig.legacy_windows_stdio instead.

  • Py_FileSystemDefaultEncoding: Use PyConfig.filesystem_encoding instead.

  • Py_HasFileSystemDefaultEncoding: Use PyConfig.filesystem_encoding instead.

  • Py_FileSystemDefaultEncodeErrors: Use PyConfig.filesystem_errors instead.

  • Py_UTF8Mode: Use PyPreConfig.utf8_mode instead. (see Py_PreInitialize())

  The Py_InitializeFromConfig() API should be used with PyConfig instead.

Pending Removal in Python 3.15

• The bundled copy of libmpdecimal.

• The PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock(): Use PyImport_ImportModule() instead.

• PyWeakref_GetObject() and PyWeakref_GET_OBJECT(): Use PyWeakref_GetRef() instead.

• Py_UNICODE type and the Py_UNICODE_WIDE macro: Use wchar_t instead.

• Python initialization functions:

  • PySys_ResetWarnOptions(): Clear sys.warnoptions and warnings.filters instead.

  • Py_GetExecPrefix(): Get sys.base_exec_prefix and sys.exec_prefix instead.

  • Py_GetPath(): Get sys.path instead.

  • Py_GetPrefix(): Get sys.base_prefix and sys.prefix instead.

  • Py_GetProgramFullPath(): Get sys.executable instead.

  • Py_GetProgramName(): Get sys.executable instead.

  • Py_GetPythonHome(): Get PyConfig.home or the PYTHONHOME environment variable instead.

Pending Removal in Future Versions

The following APIs are deprecated and will be removed, although there is currently no date scheduled for their removal.

• Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_FINALIZE: Unneeded since Python 3.8.

• PyErr_Fetch(): Use PyErr_GetRaisedException() instead.

• PyErr_NormalizeException(): Use PyErr_GetRaisedException() instead.

• PyErr_Restore(): Use PyErr_SetRaisedException() instead.

• PyModule_GetFilename(): Use PyModule_GetFilenameObject() instead.

• PyOS_AfterFork(): Use PyOS_AfterFork_Child() instead.

• PySlice_GetIndicesEx(): Use PySlice_Unpack() and PySlice_AdjustIndices() instead.

• PyUnicode_AsDecodedObject(): Use PyCodec_Decode() instead.

• PyUnicode_AsDecodedUnicode(): Use PyCodec_Decode() instead.

• PyUnicode_AsEncodedObject(): Use PyCodec_Encode() instead.

• PyUnicode_AsEncodedUnicode(): Use PyCodec_Encode() instead.

• PyUnicode_READY(): Unneeded since Python 3.12

• PyErr_Display(): Use PyErr_DisplayException() instead.

• _PyErr_ChainExceptions(): Use _PyErr_ChainExceptions1() instead.

• PyBytesObject.ob_shash member: call PyObject_Hash() instead.

• PyDictObject.ma_version_tag member.

• Thread Local Storage (TLS) API:

  • PyThread_create_key(): Use PyThread_tss_alloc() instead.

  • PyThread_delete_key(): Use PyThread_tss_free() instead.

  • PyThread_set_key_value(): Use PyThread_tss_set() instead.

  • PyThread_get_key_value(): Use PyThread_tss_get() instead.

  • PyThread_delete_key_value(): Use PyThread_tss_delete() instead.

  • PyThread_ReInitTLS(): Unneeded since Python 3.7.