[New-bugs-announce] [issue42533] Document encodings.idna limitations

[Tobias Kunze]

New submission from Tobias Kunze <r at rixx.de>:

The documentation for the encodings.idna module contains no indicator that the RFC it supports has been obsoleted by another RFC: https://docs.python.org/3.10/library/codecs.html#module-encodings.idna

I'm sure this is obvious when you know your RFCs, but when just looking at the docs, it's easy to miss. In #msg379674, Marc-Andre suggested to fix the situation by deprecating or updating IDNA support. I'd like to propose to add a warning message in the meantime, pointing out the newer RFC and linking to the idna package on PyPI (if links to PyPI packages are alright in the docs?)

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation, Unicode
messages: 382300
nosy: docs at python, ezio.melotti, rixx, vstinner
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Document encodings.idna limitations
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.10

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