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authorVictor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>2021-09-02 12:58:00 +0200
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2021-09-02 12:58:00 +0200
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downloadcpython-git-19ba2122ac7313ac29207360cfa864a275b9489e.tar.gz
bpo-37330: open() no longer accept 'U' in file mode (GH-28118)
open(), io.open(), codecs.open() and fileinput.FileInput no longer accept "U" ("universal newline") in the file mode. This flag was deprecated since Python 3.3.
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@@ -1156,12 +1156,6 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
first decoded using a platform-dependent encoding or using the specified
*encoding* if given.
- There is an additional mode character permitted, ``'U'``, which no longer
- has any effect, and is considered deprecated. It previously enabled
- :term:`universal newlines` in text mode, which became the default behavior
- in Python 3.0. Refer to the documentation of the
- :ref:`newline <open-newline-parameter>` parameter for further details.
-
.. note::
Python doesn't depend on the underlying operating system's notion of text
@@ -1304,8 +1298,7 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
The ``mode`` and ``flags`` arguments may have been modified or inferred from
the original call.
- .. versionchanged::
- 3.3
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.3
* The *opener* parameter was added.
* The ``'x'`` mode was added.
@@ -1313,30 +1306,26 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
* :exc:`FileExistsError` is now raised if the file opened in exclusive
creation mode (``'x'``) already exists.
- .. versionchanged::
- 3.4
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.4
* The file is now non-inheritable.
- .. deprecated-removed:: 3.4 3.10
-
- The ``'U'`` mode.
-
- .. versionchanged::
- 3.5
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.5
* If the system call is interrupted and the signal handler does not raise an
exception, the function now retries the system call instead of raising an
:exc:`InterruptedError` exception (see :pep:`475` for the rationale).
* The ``'namereplace'`` error handler was added.
- .. versionchanged::
- 3.6
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.6
* Support added to accept objects implementing :class:`os.PathLike`.
* On Windows, opening a console buffer may return a subclass of
:class:`io.RawIOBase` other than :class:`io.FileIO`.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.11
+ The ``'U'`` mode has been removed.
+
.. function:: ord(c)
Given a string representing one Unicode character, return an integer