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Title: Remove deprecated nntplib method
Type: enhancement Stage: resolved
Components: Library (Lib) Versions: Python 3.9
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Status: closed Resolution: fixed
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: corona10 Nosy List: berker.peksag, corona10, vstinner
Priority: normal Keywords: patch

Created on 2020-01-17 09:11 by corona10, last changed 2022-04-11 14:59 by admin. This issue is now closed.

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PR 18035 merged corona10, 2020-01-17 09:17
Messages (8)
msg360163 - (view) Author: Dong-hee Na (corona10) * (Python committer) Date: 2020-01-17 09:11
Remove deprecated methods since Python 3.3.
Moreover nntplib.NNTP.xgtitle has not been exposed through docs.python.org
https://docs.python.org/3/library/nntplib.html
msg360169 - (view) Author: STINNER Victor (vstinner) * (Python committer) Date: 2020-01-17 11:04
I'm not used to the NNTP protocol. Does the news.gmane.io support these 2 extensions?
msg360188 - (view) Author: Dong-hee Na (corona10) * (Python committer) Date: 2020-01-17 13:48
Looks like xgtitle is supported but xpath is not.

>>> a.xgtitle('gmane.comp.python.committers')
('282 Descriptions in form "group description"', [('gmane.comp.python.committers', 'CPython Committers (non-public) (Moderated)')])
>>> a.xpath(message_id)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/nntplib.py", line 865, in xpath
    resp = self._shortcmd('XPATH {0}'.format(id))
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/nntplib.py", line 513, in _shortcmd
    return self._getresp()
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/nntplib.py", line 458, in _getresp
    raise NNTPPermanentError(resp)
nntplib.NNTPPermanentError: 500 What?
msg360190 - (view) Author: STINNER Victor (vstinner) * (Python committer) Date: 2020-01-17 13:53
>>> a.xgtitle('gmane.comp.python.committers')
('282 Descriptions in form "group description"', [('gmane.comp.python.committers', 'CPython Committers (non-public) (Moderated)')])

Does https://docs.python.org/dev/library/nntplib.html#nntplib.NNTP.description give the same result?
msg360192 - (view) Author: Dong-hee Na (corona10) * (Python committer) Date: 2020-01-17 14:11
> Does https://docs.python.org/dev/library/nntplib.html#nntplib.NNTP.description give the same result?

Not exactly same but descriptions give a similar result.

>>> import nntplib
>>> a = nntplib.NNTP('news.gmane.io')
>>> a.description('gmane.comp.python.committers')
'CPython Committers (non-public) (Moderated)'
>>> a.descriptions('gmane.comp.python.committers')
('215 Newsgroup descriptions in form "group description"', {'gmane.comp.python.committers': 'CPython Committers (non-public) (Moderated)'})
>>> a.xgtitle('gmane.comp.python.committers')
<stdin>:1: DeprecationWarning: The XGTITLE extension is not actively used, use descriptions() instead
('282 Descriptions in form "group description"', [('gmane.comp.python.committers', 'CPython Committers (non-public) (Moderated)')])
msg360197 - (view) Author: STINNER Victor (vstinner) * (Python committer) Date: 2020-01-17 16:08
>>> a.description('gmane.comp.python.committers')
'CPython Committers (non-public) (Moderated)'
>>> a.descriptions('gmane.comp.python.committers')
('215 Newsgroup descriptions in form "group description"', {'gmane.comp.python.committers': 'CPython Committers (non-public) (Moderated)'})

Well, both results contain the same important string: 'CPython Committers (non-public) (Moderated)'. So I think that it's ok to drop xgtitle() as well.
msg360512 - (view) Author: Berker Peksag (berker.peksag) * (Python committer) Date: 2020-01-22 21:59
New changeset 1f0f102dec506fd06f912b74dd2be64a7fba0d3f by Berker Peksag (Dong-hee Na) in branch 'master':
bpo-39366: Remove xpath() and xgtitle() methods of NNTP (GH-18035)
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/1f0f102dec506fd06f912b74dd2be64a7fba0d3f
msg360514 - (view) Author: Berker Peksag (berker.peksag) * (Python committer) Date: 2020-01-22 22:01
Thanks for the PR! I'm glad these previously deprecated functions are now gone.
History
Date User Action Args
2022-04-11 14:59:25adminsetgithub: 83547
2020-01-22 22:01:26berker.peksagsetstatus: open -> closed
type: enhancement
messages: + msg360514

components: + Library (Lib)
resolution: fixed
stage: patch review -> resolved
2020-01-22 21:59:47berker.peksagsetnosy: + berker.peksag
messages: + msg360512
2020-01-17 16:08:54vstinnersetmessages: + msg360197
2020-01-17 14:11:24corona10setmessages: + msg360192
2020-01-17 13:53:18vstinnersetmessages: + msg360190
2020-01-17 13:48:18corona10setmessages: + msg360188
2020-01-17 11:04:52vstinnersetmessages: + msg360169
2020-01-17 09:17:07corona10setkeywords: + patch
stage: patch review
pull_requests: + pull_request17432
2020-01-17 09:11:15corona10create