From 0cf177205c9ca8b5a8845aad2f30d37e9e2e4dd3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: R David Murray Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 20:39:52 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] whatsnew: porting note for sysconfig 'SO' key deprecation. --- Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index 4a65b890238..971afc445b7 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -2249,6 +2249,11 @@ Changes in the Python API future have no default, all calls to :func:`hmac.new` should be changed to explicitly specify a *digestmod* (:issue:`17276`). +* Calling :func:`sysconfig.get_config_var` with the ``SO`` key, or looking + ``SO`` up in the results of a call to :func:`sysconfig.get_config_vars` + is deprecated. This key should be replaced by ``EXT_SUFFIX`` or + ``SHLIB_SUFFIX``, depending on the context (:issue:`19555`). + * Any calls to ``open`` functions that specify ``U`` should be modified. ``U`` is ineffective in Python3 and will eventually raise an error if used. Depending on the function, the equivalent of its old Python2 behavior can be