deprecated mimetools

Doc/library/mimetools.rst

@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@
 
 .. deprecated:: 2.3
    The :mod:`email` package should be used in preference to the :mod:`mimetools`
-   module.  This module is present only to maintain backward compatibility.
+   module.  This module is present only to maintain backward compatibility, and
+   it has been removed in 3.x.
 
 .. index:: module: rfc822
 

Lib/mimetools.py

@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ import os
 import rfc822
 import tempfile
 
+from warnings import warnpy3k
+warnpy3k("in 3.x, mimetools has been removed in favor of the email package")
+
 __all__ = ["Message","choose_boundary","encode","decode","copyliteral",
            "copybinary"]
 

Lib/test/test_mimetools.py

 import unittest
 from test import test_support
 
-import string, StringIO, mimetools
+import string
+import StringIO
+
+mimetools = test_support.import_module("mimetools", deprecated=True)
 
 msgtext1 = mimetools.Message(StringIO.StringIO(
 """Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed

Lib/test/test_py3kwarn.py

@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ class TestStdlibRemovals(unittest.TestCase):
     # test.testall not tested as it executes all unit tests as an
     # import side-effect.
     all_platforms = ('audiodev', 'imputil', 'mutex', 'user', 'new', 'rexec',
-                        'Bastion', 'compiler', 'dircache', 'fpformat',
+                        'Bastion', 'compiler', 'dircache', 'mimetools', 'fpformat',
                         'ihooks', 'mhlib', 'statvfs', 'htmllib', 'sgmllib')
     inclusive_platforms = {'irix' : ('pure', 'AL', 'al', 'CD', 'cd', 'cddb',
                                      'cdplayer', 'CL', 'cl', 'DEVICE', 'GL',

Misc/NEWS

@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ Extension Modules
 Library
 -------
 
+- The mimetools module has been deprecated for removal in 3.0.
+
 - The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
   which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
   pointer-like object.