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Remove mention of lib-old, and list more deleted modules

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Andrew M. Kuchling 2006-03-17 15:39:52 +00:00
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@ -599,6 +599,8 @@ The \member{st_flags} member is also available, if the platform supports it.
\item The old \module{regex} and \module{regsub} modules, which have been
deprecated ever since Python 2.0, have finally been deleted.
Other deleted modules: \module{statcache}, \module{tzparse},
\module{whrandom}.
\item The \file{lib-old} directory,
which includes ancient modules such as \module{dircmp} and
@ -744,23 +746,6 @@ changes to your code:
\begin{itemize}
\item Some old deprecated modules (\module{statcache}, \module{tzparse},
\module{whrandom}) have been moved to \file{Lib/lib-old}.
You can get access to these modules again by adding the directory
to your \code{sys.path}:
\begin{verbatim}
import os
from distutils import sysconfig
lib_dir = sysconfig.get_python_lib(standard_lib=True)
old_dir = os.path.join(lib_dir, 'lib-old')
sys.path.append(old_dir)
\end{verbatim}
Doing so is discouraged, however; it's better to update any code that
still uses these modules.
% the pickle module no longer uses the deprecated bin parameter.
\end{itemize}