Since importing the module emits a DeprecationWarning at runtime since Python 3.4 and the deprecation is properly documented, IMO it's fine to remove it right now: https://docs.python.org/dev/library/formatter.html I never used this module, I don't know what it is. "Formatter objects transform an abstract flow of formatting events into specific output events on writer objects." Victor Le mar. 24 nov. 2020 à 06:42, Dong-hee Na a écrit :

A few days ago, Terry J. Reedy created the issue about the formatter module. (https://bugs.python.org/issue42299)

The issue is mainly about testing code but also discussing the removal of the module. I noticed that the formatter module was deprecated in 3.4 and it was originally scheduled to be removed in 3.6. But the removal was delayed until 2.7 EOL.

Now 2.7 is EOL and there is no usage in stdlib. So IMHO, it is good to remove the formatter module in 3.10

So before removing it, I would like to hear the concern.

Regards, Dong-hee

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On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 12:51 PM Victor Stinner wrote:

I never used this module, I don't know what it is.

I've run a quick search on GitHub and the only meaningful reference I could find is the Grail browser (which had its last release, AFAICT, in 1999). http://grail.sourceforge.net/ S. -- Stefane Fermigier - http://fermigier.com/ - http://twitter.com/sfermigier - http://linkedin.com/in/sfermigier Founder & CEO, Abilian - Enterprise Social Software - http://www.abilian.com/ Chairman, National Council for Free & Open Source Software (CNLL) - http://cnll.fr/ Founder & Organiser, PyParis & PyData Paris - http://pyparis.org/ & http://pydata.fr/

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 10:59 AM Stéfane Fermigier wrote:

I've run a quick search on GitHub and the only meaningful reference I could find is the Grail browser (which had its last release, AFAICT, in 1999).

http://grail.sourceforge.net/

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