[issue42299] Remove formatter module

Ernest W. Durbin III added the comment: Issues relating to documentation build likely need to be looked at and addressed by Julien. If it does end up being an infra issue, feel free to read me to nosy. -- nosy: +mdk ___ Python tracker

[issue42299] Remove formatter module

Christian Heimes added the comment: https://docs.python.org/3.10/library/index.html no longer links to https://docs.python.org/3.10/library/misc.html but misc.html and formatter.html are still there. It looks like a bug in the build and update process. I bet it's not removing files. Ee, cou

[issue42299] Remove formatter module

Miro Hrončok added the comment: I am confused. Why is this still online when the source was removed? https://docs.python.org/3.10/library/formatter.html -- nosy: +hroncok ___ Python tracker _

[issue42299] Remove formatter module

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: A coda on my 'obsolete and superseded' claim: text formatting events have 2 sources -- the text being displayed and user actions while reading. formatter somewhat mixes these together. html.parser.HTMLParser generates events from the text in the form of cal

[issue42299] Remove formatter module

STINNER Victor added the comment: Thread on python-dev: https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-...@python.org/thread/ZEDIBBYCWI34GVOXDEUYXQY3LYXOFHA2/ Copy of Fred Drake's email: "Oh, the memories! Looking at docs, I can vaguely recall using the API, but... it definitely doesn't belong

[issue42299] Remove formatter module

Dong-hee Na added the comment: @terry.reedy @vstinner Thank you, Terry and Victor, and goodbye formatter module! -- nosy: +vstinner resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue42299] Remove formatter module

Dong-hee Na added the comment: New changeset be319c0c108e308fb7ed6ec9522e969fdffd1253 by Dong-hee Na in branch 'master': bpo-42299: Remove formatter module (GH-23476) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/be319c0c108e308fb7ed6ec9522e969fdffd1253 -- __

[issue42299] Remove formatter module

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I took a look at the module and its doc. It is based on a 1980s model of document processing that has been somewhat superseded by html, xml, and pdf. The module itself has been pretty well superseded by stdlib and external moudles. IDLE, for instance, dis

[issue42299] Remove formatter module

Karthikeyan Singaravelan added the comment: This was proposed earlier : https://bugs.python.org/issue39352 -- nosy: +xtreak ___ Python tracker ___

[issue42299] Remove formatter module

Dong-hee Na added the comment: @christian.heimes Thank you Christian I also discuss this issue on python-dev and everybody agree with removing this module. I will remove this module ;) -- ___ Python tracker

[issue42299] Remove formatter module

Change by Dong-hee Na : -- title: Add test_formatter (or remove deprecated formatter module?) -> Remove formatter module ___ Python tracker ___ ___