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<h1>Pending removal in Python 3.14<a class="headerlink" href="#pending-removal-in-python-3-14" title="Link to this heading">¶</a></h1>
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<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="../library/argparse.html#module-argparse" title="argparse: Command-line option and argument parsing library."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">argparse</span></code></a>: The <em>type</em>, <em>choices</em>, and <em>metavar</em> parameters
of <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">argparse.BooleanOptionalAction</span></code> are deprecated
and will be removed in 3.14.
(Contributed by Nikita Sobolev in <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/92248">gh-92248</a>.)</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="../library/ast.html#module-ast" title="ast: Abstract Syntax Tree classes and manipulation."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ast</span></code></a>: The following features have been deprecated in documentation
since Python 3.8, now cause a <a class="reference internal" href="../library/exceptions.html#DeprecationWarning" title="DeprecationWarning"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DeprecationWarning</span></code></a> to be emitted at
runtime when they are accessed or used, and will be removed in Python 3.14:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ast.Num</span></code></p></li>
<li><p><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ast.Str</span></code></p></li>
<li><p><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ast.Bytes</span></code></p></li>
<li><p><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ast.NameConstant</span></code></p></li>
<li><p><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ast.Ellipsis</span></code></p></li>
</ul>
<p>Use <a class="reference internal" href="../library/ast.html#ast.Constant" title="ast.Constant"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ast.Constant</span></code></a> instead.
(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/90953">gh-90953</a>.)</p>
</li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="../library/asyncio.html#module-asyncio" title="asyncio: Asynchronous I/O."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">asyncio</span></code></a>:</p>
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<li><p>The child watcher classes <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">asyncio.MultiLoopChildWatcher</span></code>,
<code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">asyncio.FastChildWatcher</span></code>, <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">asyncio.AbstractChildWatcher</span></code>
and <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">asyncio.SafeChildWatcher</span></code> are deprecated and
will be removed in Python 3.14.
(Contributed by Kumar Aditya in <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/94597">gh-94597</a>.)</p></li>
<li><p><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">asyncio.set_child_watcher()</span></code>, <code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">asyncio.get_child_watcher()</span></code>,
<code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">asyncio.AbstractEventLoopPolicy.set_child_watcher()</span></code> and
<code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">asyncio.AbstractEventLoopPolicy.get_child_watcher()</span></code> are deprecated
and will be removed in Python 3.14.
(Contributed by Kumar Aditya in <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/94597">gh-94597</a>.)</p></li>
<li><p>The <a class="reference internal" href="../library/asyncio-eventloop.html#asyncio.get_event_loop" title="asyncio.get_event_loop"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_event_loop()</span></code></a> method of the
default event loop policy now emits a <a class="reference internal" href="../library/exceptions.html#DeprecationWarning" title="DeprecationWarning"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DeprecationWarning</span></code></a> if there
is no current event loop set and it decides to create one.
(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka and Guido van Rossum in <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/100160">gh-100160</a>.)</p></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="../library/email.html#module-email" title="email: Package supporting the parsing, manipulating, and generating email messages."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">email</span></code></a>: Deprecated the <em>isdst</em> parameter in <a class="reference internal" href="../library/email.utils.html#email.utils.localtime" title="email.utils.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">email.utils.localtime()</span></code></a>.
(Contributed by Alan Williams in <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/72346">gh-72346</a>.)</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="../library/importlib.html#module-importlib.abc" title="importlib.abc: Abstract base classes related to import"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">importlib.abc</span></code></a> deprecated classes:</p>
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<li><p><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">importlib.abc.ResourceReader</span></code></p></li>
<li><p><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">importlib.abc.Traversable</span></code></p></li>
<li><p><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">importlib.abc.TraversableResources</span></code></p></li>
</ul>
<p>Use <a class="reference internal" href="../library/importlib.resources.abc.html#module-importlib.resources.abc" title="importlib.resources.abc: Abstract base classes for resources"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">importlib.resources.abc</span></code></a> classes instead:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="../library/importlib.resources.abc.html#importlib.resources.abc.Traversable" title="importlib.resources.abc.Traversable"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">importlib.resources.abc.Traversable</span></code></a></p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="../library/importlib.resources.abc.html#importlib.resources.abc.TraversableResources" title="importlib.resources.abc.TraversableResources"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">importlib.resources.abc.TraversableResources</span></code></a></p></li>
</ul>
<p>(Contributed by Jason R. Coombs and Hugo van Kemenade in <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/93963">gh-93963</a>.)</p>
</li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="../library/itertools.html#module-itertools" title="itertools: Functions creating iterators for efficient looping."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">itertools</span></code></a> had undocumented, inefficient, historically buggy,
and inconsistent support for copy, deepcopy, and pickle operations.
This will be removed in 3.14 for a significant reduction in code
volume and maintenance burden.
(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/101588">gh-101588</a>.)</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="../library/multiprocessing.html#module-multiprocessing" title="multiprocessing: Process-based parallelism."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">multiprocessing</span></code></a>: The default start method will change to a safer one on
Linux, BSDs, and other non-macOS POSIX platforms where <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'fork'</span></code> is currently
the default (<a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/84559">gh-84559</a>). Adding a runtime warning about this was deemed too
disruptive as the majority of code is not expected to care. Use the
<a class="reference internal" href="../library/multiprocessing.html#multiprocessing.get_context" title="multiprocessing.get_context"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">get_context()</span></code></a> or
<a class="reference internal" href="../library/multiprocessing.html#multiprocessing.set_start_method" title="multiprocessing.set_start_method"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">set_start_method()</span></code></a> APIs to explicitly specify when
your code <em>requires</em> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'fork'</span></code>. See <a class="reference internal" href="../library/multiprocessing.html#multiprocessing-start-methods"><span class="std std-ref">Contexts and start methods</span></a>.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="../library/pathlib.html#module-pathlib" title="pathlib: Object-oriented filesystem paths"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pathlib</span></code></a>: <a class="reference internal" href="../library/pathlib.html#pathlib.PurePath.is_relative_to" title="pathlib.PurePath.is_relative_to"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">is_relative_to()</span></code></a> and
<a class="reference internal" href="../library/pathlib.html#pathlib.PurePath.relative_to" title="pathlib.PurePath.relative_to"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">relative_to()</span></code></a>: passing additional arguments is
deprecated.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="../library/pkgutil.html#module-pkgutil" title="pkgutil: Utilities for the import system."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pkgutil</span></code></a>: <code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pkgutil.find_loader()</span></code> and <code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pkgutil.get_loader()</span></code>
now raise <a class="reference internal" href="../library/exceptions.html#DeprecationWarning" title="DeprecationWarning"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DeprecationWarning</span></code></a>;
use <a class="reference internal" href="../library/importlib.html#importlib.util.find_spec" title="importlib.util.find_spec"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">importlib.util.find_spec()</span></code></a> instead.
(Contributed by Nikita Sobolev in <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/97850">gh-97850</a>.)</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="../library/pty.html#module-pty" title="pty: Pseudo-Terminal Handling for Unix."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pty</span></code></a>:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">master_open()</span></code>: use <a class="reference internal" href="../library/pty.html#pty.openpty" title="pty.openpty"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pty.openpty()</span></code></a>.</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">slave_open()</span></code>: use <a class="reference internal" href="../library/pty.html#pty.openpty" title="pty.openpty"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pty.openpty()</span></code></a>.</p></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="../library/sqlite3.html#module-sqlite3" title="sqlite3: A DB-API 2.0 implementation using SQLite 3.x."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sqlite3</span></code></a>:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="xref py py-data docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">version</span></code> and <code class="xref py py-data docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">version_info</span></code>.</p></li>
<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="../library/sqlite3.html#sqlite3.Cursor.execute" title="sqlite3.Cursor.execute"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">execute()</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="../library/sqlite3.html#sqlite3.Cursor.executemany" title="sqlite3.Cursor.executemany"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">executemany()</span></code></a>
if <a class="reference internal" href="../library/sqlite3.html#sqlite3-placeholders"><span class="std std-ref">named placeholders</span></a> are used and
<em>parameters</em> is a sequence instead of a <a class="reference internal" href="../library/stdtypes.html#dict" title="dict"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dict</span></code></a>.</p></li>
</ul>
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<li><p><a class="reference internal" href="../library/urllib.html#module-urllib" title="urllib"><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urllib</span></code></a>:
<code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">urllib.parse.Quoter</span></code> is deprecated: it was not intended to be a
public API.
(Contributed by Gregory P. Smith in <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/88168">gh-88168</a>.)</p></li>
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