Pending Removal in Python 3.14 ------------------------------ * :mod:`argparse`: The *type*, *choices*, and *metavar* parameters of :class:`!argparse.BooleanOptionalAction` are deprecated and will be removed in 3.14. (Contributed by Nikita Sobolev in :gh:`92248`.) * :mod:`ast`: The following features have been deprecated in documentation since Python 3.8, now cause a :exc:`DeprecationWarning` to be emitted at runtime when they are accessed or used, and will be removed in Python 3.14: * :class:`!ast.Num` * :class:`!ast.Str` * :class:`!ast.Bytes` * :class:`!ast.NameConstant` * :class:`!ast.Ellipsis` Use :class:`ast.Constant` instead. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :gh:`90953`.) * :mod:`collections.abc`: Deprecated :class:`!collections.abc.ByteString`. Prefer :class:`!Sequence` or :class:`~collections.abc.Buffer`. For use in typing, prefer a union, like ``bytes | bytearray``, or :class:`collections.abc.Buffer`. (Contributed by Shantanu Jain in :gh:`91896`.) * :mod:`email`: Deprecated the *isdst* parameter in :func:`email.utils.localtime`. (Contributed by Alan Williams in :gh:`72346`.) * :mod:`importlib`: ``__package__`` and ``__cached__`` will cease to be set or taken into consideration by the import system (:gh:`97879`). * :mod:`importlib.abc` deprecated classes: * :class:`!importlib.abc.ResourceReader` * :class:`!importlib.abc.Traversable` * :class:`!importlib.abc.TraversableResources` Use :mod:`importlib.resources.abc` classes instead: * :class:`importlib.resources.abc.Traversable` * :class:`importlib.resources.abc.TraversableResources` (Contributed by Jason R. Coombs and Hugo van Kemenade in :gh:`93963`.) * :mod:`itertools` had undocumented, inefficient, historically buggy, and inconsistent support for copy, deepcopy, and pickle operations. This will be removed in 3.14 for a significant reduction in code volume and maintenance burden. (Contributed by Raymond Hettinger in :gh:`101588`.) * :mod:`multiprocessing`: The default start method will change to a safer one on Linux, BSDs, and other non-macOS POSIX platforms where ``'fork'`` is currently the default (:gh:`84559`). Adding a runtime warning about this was deemed too disruptive as the majority of code is not expected to care. Use the :func:`~multiprocessing.get_context` or :func:`~multiprocessing.set_start_method` APIs to explicitly specify when your code *requires* ``'fork'``. See :ref:`multiprocessing-start-methods`. * :mod:`pathlib`: :meth:`~pathlib.PurePath.is_relative_to` and :meth:`~pathlib.PurePath.relative_to`: passing additional arguments is deprecated. * :mod:`pkgutil`: :func:`~pkgutil.find_loader` and :func:`~pkgutil.get_loader` now raise :exc:`DeprecationWarning`; use :func:`importlib.util.find_spec` instead. (Contributed by Nikita Sobolev in :gh:`97850`.) * :mod:`pty`: * ``master_open()``: use :func:`pty.openpty`. * ``slave_open()``: use :func:`pty.openpty`. * :mod:`sqlite3`: * :data:`!version` and :data:`!version_info`. * :meth:`~sqlite3.Cursor.execute` and :meth:`~sqlite3.Cursor.executemany` if :ref:`named placeholders ` are used and *parameters* is a sequence instead of a :class:`dict`. * date and datetime adapter, date and timestamp converter: see the :mod:`sqlite3` documentation for suggested replacement recipes. * :class:`types.CodeType`: Accessing :attr:`~codeobject.co_lnotab` was deprecated in :pep:`626` since 3.10 and was planned to be removed in 3.12, but it only got a proper :exc:`DeprecationWarning` in 3.12. May be removed in 3.14. (Contributed by Nikita Sobolev in :gh:`101866`.) * :mod:`typing`: :class:`!typing.ByteString`, deprecated since Python 3.9, now causes a :exc:`DeprecationWarning` to be emitted when it is used. * :mod:`urllib`: :class:`!urllib.parse.Quoter` is deprecated: it was not intended to be a public API. (Contributed by Gregory P. Smith in :gh:`88168`.)