On 12/10/20 10:58 AM, Victor Stinner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I vaguely recall that PEP 617 "New PEG parser for CPython" was
> supposed to deprecate the lib2to3 module and the 2to3 program.
> 
> I see that lib2to3/__init__.py contains a PendingDeprecationWarning in
> Python 3.9. Can it be converted into a regular DeprecationWarning and
> document the deprecation in Doc/library/2to3.rst?
> 
> --
> 
> Do we still want to maintain lib2to3? People who didn't migrate to
> Python 3 can use 2to3 of Python 3.9 or Python 3.10. There are also
> other tools like 2to6, modernize, etc. (or my "sixer" project which I
> no longer maintains.)
> 
> I'm not sure sure if the lib2to3 module is used by 3rd party projects
> like modernize or black?

lib2to3 is used by distutils/util, so why deprecate it before distutils?
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