[Python-checkins] bpo-22039: [doc] clarify that there are no plans to disable deleting an attribute via PyObject_SetAttr (GH-30639)

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Wed Jan 19 07:04:00 EST 2022


https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/3bf6315c4cabf72d64e65e6f85bf72c65137255a
commit: 3bf6315c4cabf72d64e65e6f85bf72c65137255a
branch: main
author: Irit Katriel <1055913+iritkatriel at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: iritkatriel <1055913+iritkatriel at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2022-01-19T12:03:51Z
summary:

bpo-22039: [doc] clarify that there are no plans to disable deleting an attribute via PyObject_SetAttr (GH-30639)

files:
M Doc/c-api/object.rst

diff --git a/Doc/c-api/object.rst b/Doc/c-api/object.rst
index 17e3707799496..41a3affcf9842 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/object.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/object.rst
@@ -81,8 +81,9 @@ Object Protocol
    return ``0`` on success.  This is the equivalent of the Python statement
    ``o.attr_name = v``.
 
-   If *v* is ``NULL``, the attribute is deleted, however this feature is
-   deprecated in favour of using :c:func:`PyObject_DelAttr`.
+   If *v* is ``NULL``, the attribute is deleted. This behaviour is deprecated
+   in favour of using :c:func:`PyObject_DelAttr`, but there are currently no
+   plans to remove it.
 
 
 .. c:function:: int PyObject_SetAttrString(PyObject *o, const char *attr_name, PyObject *v)



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