Closes #10650: Deprecate the watchexp parameter of Decimal.quantize().
diff --git a/Doc/library/decimal.rst b/Doc/library/decimal.rst
index 3fa006b..4a2b2d0 100644
--- a/Doc/library/decimal.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/decimal.rst
@@ -737,6 +737,11 @@
resulting exponent is greater than :attr:`Emax` or less than
:attr:`Etiny`.
+ .. deprecated:: 3.3
+ *watchexp* is an implementation detail from the pure Python version
+ and is not present in the C version. It will be removed in version
+ 3.4, where it defaults to ``True``.
+
.. method:: radix()
Return ``Decimal(10)``, the radix (base) in which the :class:`Decimal`
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
index 845de84..47cbd4e 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.3.rst
@@ -1190,6 +1190,10 @@
changed to match the order displayed by :func:`repr`.
+* The ``watchexp`` parameter in the :meth:`~decimal.Decimal.quantize` method
+ is deprecated.
+
+
ftplib
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