From 90134c9a05146f3cc53fcb8a5de8fdfc2fe8dc93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 20:46:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Have MimeWriter raise a DeprecationWarning as per PEP 4 and
 its documentation.

---
 Lib/MimeWriter.py           | 5 +++++
 Lib/test/test_MimeWriter.py | 4 ++++
 Lib/test/test___all__.py    | 2 ++
 Misc/NEWS                   | 2 ++
 4 files changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Lib/MimeWriter.py b/Lib/MimeWriter.py
index 58c0a0bcf2a..e898f9ff231 100644
--- a/Lib/MimeWriter.py
+++ b/Lib/MimeWriter.py
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ import mimetools
 
 __all__ = ["MimeWriter"]
 
+import warnings
+
+warnings.warn("the MimeWriter module is deprecated; use the email package instead",
+                DeprecationWarning, 2)
+
 class MimeWriter:
 
     """Generic MIME writer.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_MimeWriter.py b/Lib/test/test_MimeWriter.py
index feca1631f2b..5a20bf226b8 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_MimeWriter.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_MimeWriter.py
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ This should generate Barry's example, modulo some quotes and newlines.
 import unittest, sys, StringIO
 from test.test_support import run_unittest
 
+import warnings
+warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", "the MimeWriter module is deprecated.*",
+                        DeprecationWarning)
+
 from MimeWriter import MimeWriter
 
 SELLER = '''\
diff --git a/Lib/test/test___all__.py b/Lib/test/test___all__.py
index 14795a6e603..071ed04251f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test___all__.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test___all__.py
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", "the sets module is deprecated",
                         DeprecationWarning, "<string>")
 warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", ".*popen2 module is deprecated.*",
                         DeprecationWarning)
+warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", "the MimeWriter module is deprecated.*",
+                        DeprecationWarning)
 
 class AllTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1ce32ceb0fc..4ca7fa8da2a 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ Core and builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- MimeWriter now raises a DeprecationWarning upon import.
+
 - tarfile.py: Improved unicode support. Unicode input names are now
   officially supported. Added "errors" argument to the TarFile class.