Index: Misc/NEWS
===================================================================
--- Misc/NEWS	(revision 61467)
+++ Misc/NEWS	(working copy)
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@
   are still valid. There are binary literals with a prefix of "0b".
   This also affects int(x, 0).
 
+- Issue #2359: Adding deprecation warnings for array.{read,write}.
+
 - Issue #1779871: Gnu gcc can now build Python on OS X because the
   flags -Wno-long-double, -no-cpp-precomp, and -mno-fused-madd are no
   longer passed.
Index: Modules/arraymodule.c
===================================================================
--- Modules/arraymodule.c	(revision 61467)
+++ Modules/arraymodule.c	(working copy)
@@ -1255,6 +1255,18 @@
 
 
 static PyObject *
+array_fromfile_as_read(arrayobject *self, PyObject *args)
+{
+	if(Py_Py3kWarningFlag &&
+	   PyErr_Warn(PyExc_DeprecationWarning,
+		      "In 3.x, array.read() was moved to array.fromfile().") < 0)
+		return NULL;
+	else
+		return array_fromfile(self, args);
+}
+
+
+static PyObject *
 array_tofile(arrayobject *self, PyObject *f)
 {
 	FILE *fp;
@@ -1284,6 +1296,18 @@
 
 
 static PyObject *
+array_tofile_as_write(arrayobject *self, PyObject *f)
+{
+	if(Py_Py3kWarningFlag &&
+	   PyErr_Warn(PyExc_DeprecationWarning,
+		      "In 3.x, array.write() was moved to array.tofile().") < 0)
+		return NULL;
+	else
+		return array_tofile(self, f);
+}
+
+
+static PyObject *
 array_fromlist(arrayobject *self, PyObject *list)
 {
 	Py_ssize_t n;
@@ -1522,7 +1546,7 @@
 	 insert_doc},
 	{"pop",		(PyCFunction)array_pop,		METH_VARARGS,
 	 pop_doc},
-	{"read",	(PyCFunction)array_fromfile,	METH_VARARGS,
+	{"read",	(PyCFunction)array_fromfile_as_read,	METH_VARARGS,
 	 fromfile_doc},
 	{"__reduce__",	(PyCFunction)array_reduce,	METH_NOARGS,
 	 array_doc},
@@ -1542,7 +1566,7 @@
 	{"tounicode",   (PyCFunction)array_tounicode,	METH_NOARGS,
 	 tounicode_doc},
 #endif
-	{"write",	(PyCFunction)array_tofile,	METH_O,
+	{"write",	(PyCFunction)array_tofile_as_write,	METH_O,
 	 tofile_doc},
 	{NULL,		NULL}		/* sentinel */
 };