Issue #20572: Remove the subprocess.Popen.wait endtime parameter.

It was deprecated in 3.4 and undocumented prior to that.

Lib/subprocess.py

@@ -1027,11 +1027,9 @@ class Popen(object):
             return self.returncode
 
 
-        def wait(self, timeout=None, endtime=None):
+        def wait(self, timeout=None):
             """Wait for child process to terminate.  Returns returncode
             attribute."""
-            if endtime is not None:
-                timeout = self._remaining_time(endtime)
             if timeout is None:
                 timeout_millis = _winapi.INFINITE
             else:
@@ -1386,21 +1384,14 @@ class Popen(object):
             return (pid, sts)
 
 
-        def wait(self, timeout=None, endtime=None):
+        def wait(self, timeout=None):
             """Wait for child process to terminate.  Returns returncode
             attribute."""
             if self.returncode is not None:
                 return self.returncode
 
-            # endtime is preferred to timeout.  timeout is only used for
-            # printing.
-            if endtime is not None or timeout is not None:
-                if endtime is None:
-                    endtime = _time() + timeout
-                elif timeout is None:
-                    timeout = self._remaining_time(endtime)
-
-            if endtime is not None:
+            if timeout is not None:
+                endtime = _time() + timeout
                 # Enter a busy loop if we have a timeout.  This busy loop was
                 # cribbed from Lib/threading.py in Thread.wait() at r71065.
                 delay = 0.0005 # 500 us -> initial delay of 1 ms

Lib/test/test_subprocess.py

@@ -2777,19 +2777,5 @@ class ContextManagerTests(BaseTestCase):
         self.assertTrue(proc.stdin.closed)
 
 
-def test_main():
-    unit_tests = (ProcessTestCase,
-                  POSIXProcessTestCase,
-                  Win32ProcessTestCase,
-                  MiscTests,
-                  ProcessTestCaseNoPoll,
-                  CommandsWithSpaces,
-                  ContextManagerTests,
-                  RunFuncTestCase,
-                  )
-
-    support.run_unittest(*unit_tests)
-    support.reap_children()
-
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()

Misc/NEWS

@@ -131,6 +131,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #20572: Remove the subprocess.Popen.wait endtime parameter.  It was
+  deprecated in 3.4 and undocumented prior to that.
+
 - Issue #25659: In ctypes, prevent a crash calling the from_buffer() and
   from_buffer_copy() methods on abstract classes like Array.