Remove the sre module.
diff --git a/Lib/sre.py b/Lib/sre.py
deleted file mode 100644
index c04576b..0000000
--- a/Lib/sre.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-"""This file is only retained for backwards compatibility.
-It will be removed in the future. sre was moved to re in version 2.5.
-"""
-
-import warnings
-warnings.warn("The sre module is deprecated, please import re.",
- DeprecationWarning, 2)
-
-from re import *
-from re import __all__
-
-# old pickles expect the _compile() reconstructor in this module
-from re import _compile
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_re.py b/Lib/test/test_re.py
index 7aa6996..11677f3 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_re.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_re.py
@@ -434,16 +434,6 @@
self.assertEqual(pat.match(p) is not None, True)
self.assertEqual(pat.match(p).span(), (0,256))
- def test_pickling(self):
- import pickle
- self.pickle_test(pickle)
- # old pickles expect the _compile() reconstructor in sre module
- import warnings
- with catch_warning():
- warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", "The sre module is deprecated",
- DeprecationWarning)
- from sre import _compile
-
def pickle_test(self, pickle):
oldpat = re.compile('a(?:b|(c|e){1,2}?|d)+?(.)')
s = pickle.dumps(oldpat)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 47eb5c2..c3d9cc5 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
Library
-------
+- The sre module has been removed.
+
- The PixMapWrapper module has been renamed to pixmapwrapper.
- The Queue module has been renamed to queue.