bpo-33842: Remove tarfile.filemode (GH-7661)

Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst

@@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ Removed
 * ``parse_qs``, ``parse_qsl``, and ``escape`` are removed from :mod:`cgi`
   module.  They are deprecated from Python 3.2 or older.
 
+* ``filemode`` function is removed from :mod:`tarfile` module.
+  It is not documented and deprecated since Python 3.3.
 
 
 Porting to Python 3.8

Lib/tarfile.py

@@ -256,13 +256,6 @@ def copyfileobj(src, dst, length=None, exception=OSError, bufsize=None):
         dst.write(buf)
     return
 
-def filemode(mode):
-    """Deprecated in this location; use stat.filemode."""
-    import warnings
-    warnings.warn("deprecated in favor of stat.filemode",
-                  DeprecationWarning, 2)
-    return stat.filemode(mode)
-
 def _safe_print(s):
     encoding = getattr(sys.stdout, 'encoding', None)
     if encoding is not None:

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2018-06-12-18-34-54.bpo-33842.RZXSGu.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Remove ``tarfile.filemode`` which is deprecated since Python 3.3.