[Python-Dev] Removing stuff from 2.4

[Anthony Baxter]

A.M. Kuchling wrote:
> * Make rfc822 raise PendingDeprecationWarning (so nothing will happen in 2.4
>   unless you have -Wa)

A few bits and pieces in the stdlib still use bits from rfc822. They all
mostly look pretty shallow, except:

> * Make mimetools, mimify, Mimewrite raise DeprecationWarnings.  (This 
>   is the part I'm least sure about; comments from people who know about
>   these modules would be appreciated.  Should they raise Pending instead?)

mimetools.Message subclasses rfc822.Message, and mimetools.Message is
used extensively in the std lib.



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