[Python-checkins] bpo-38291: Remove mention of typing.io and typing.re again (GH-26113)

[gvanrossum]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8a76683cfb842e12b57f6d276839f6c68fd94e1a
commit: 8a76683cfb842e12b57f6d276839f6c68fd94e1a
branch: main
author: Sebastian Rittau <srittau at rittau.biz>
committer: gvanrossum <gvanrossum at gmail.com>
date: 2021-06-14T07:45:19-07:00
summary:

bpo-38291: Remove mention of typing.io and typing.re again (GH-26113)

They were originally removed in GH-10173 per bpo-35089, but then
readded in GH-21574. Cf. bpo-38291 for decision to remove.

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-06-14-09-20-37.bpo-38291.VMYa_Q.rst
M Doc/library/typing.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/typing.rst b/Doc/library/typing.rst
index ba79bb7ed75ff7..e9980a7745d694 100644
--- a/Doc/library/typing.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/typing.rst
@@ -1488,7 +1488,11 @@ Other concrete types
    Generic type ``IO[AnyStr]`` and its subclasses ``TextIO(IO[str])``
    and ``BinaryIO(IO[bytes])``
    represent the types of I/O streams such as returned by
-   :func:`open`. These types are also in the ``typing.io`` namespace.
+   :func:`open`.
+
+   .. deprecated-removed:: 3.8 3.12
+      These types are also in the ``typing.io`` namespace, which was
+      never supported by type checkers and will be removed.
 
 .. class:: Pattern
            Match
@@ -1498,7 +1502,11 @@ Other concrete types
    :func:`re.match`.  These types (and the corresponding functions)
    are generic in ``AnyStr`` and can be made specific by writing
    ``Pattern[str]``, ``Pattern[bytes]``, ``Match[str]``, or
-   ``Match[bytes]``. These types are also in the ``typing.re`` namespace.
+   ``Match[bytes]``.
+
+   .. deprecated-removed:: 3.8 3.12
+      These types are also in the ``typing.re`` namespace, which was
+      never supported by type checkers and will be removed.
 
    .. deprecated:: 3.9
       Classes ``Pattern`` and ``Match`` from :mod:`re` now support ``[]``.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-06-14-09-20-37.bpo-38291.VMYa_Q.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-06-14-09-20-37.bpo-38291.VMYa_Q.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..23ce35eb176d9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-06-14-09-20-37.bpo-38291.VMYa_Q.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Mark ``typing.io`` and ``typing.re`` as deprecated since Python 3.8 in the
+documentation. They were never properly supported by type checkers.