Pending removal in Python 3.16

• The import system:

  • Setting __loader__ on a module while failing to set __spec__.loader is deprecated. In Python 3.16, __loader__ will cease to be set or taken into consideration by the import system or the standard library.

• array:

  • The 'u' format code (wchar_t) has been deprecated in documentation since Python 3.3 and at runtime since Python 3.13. Use the 'w' format code (Py_UCS4) for Unicode characters instead.

• asyncio:

  • asyncio.iscoroutinefunction() is deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.16; use inspect.iscoroutinefunction() instead. (Contributed by Jiahao Li and Kumar Aditya in gh-122875.)

  • asyncio policy system is deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.16. In particular, the following classes and functions are deprecated:

    • asyncio.AbstractEventLoopPolicy

    • asyncio.DefaultEventLoopPolicy

    • asyncio.WindowsSelectorEventLoopPolicy

    • asyncio.WindowsProactorEventLoopPolicy

    • asyncio.get_event_loop_policy()

    • asyncio.set_event_loop_policy()

    • asyncio.set_event_loop()

    Users should use asyncio.run() or asyncio.Runner with loop_factory to use the desired event loop implementation.

    For example, to use asyncio.SelectorEventLoop on Windows:

    import asyncio
    
    async def main():
        ...
    
    asyncio.run(main(), loop_factory=asyncio.SelectorEventLoop)
    

    (Contributed by Kumar Aditya in gh-127949.)

• builtins:

  • Bitwise inversion on boolean types, ~True or ~False has been deprecated since Python 3.12, as it produces surprising and unintuitive results (-2 and -1). Use not x instead for the logical negation of a Boolean. In the rare case that you need the bitwise inversion of the underlying integer, convert to int explicitly (~int(x)).

• shutil:

  • The ExecError exception has been deprecated since Python 3.14. It has not been used by any function in shutil since Python 3.4, and is now an alias of RuntimeError.

• symtable:

  • The Class.get_methods method has been deprecated since Python 3.14.

• sys:

  • The _enablelegacywindowsfsencoding() function has been deprecated since Python 3.13. Use the PYTHONLEGACYWINDOWSFSENCODING environment variable instead.

• tarfile:

  • The undocumented and unused TarFile.tarfile attribute has been deprecated since Python 3.13.