pythonGH-84850: Remove urllib.request.URLopener and FancyURLopener

These classes have been deprecated since Python 3.3.

Doc/deprecations/pending-removal-in-future.rst

@@ -144,10 +144,6 @@ although there is currently no date scheduled for their removal.
   * ``splitvalue()``
   * ``to_bytes()``
 
-* :mod:`urllib.request`: :class:`~urllib.request.URLopener` and
-  :class:`~urllib.request.FancyURLopener` style of invoking requests is
-  deprecated. Use newer :func:`~urllib.request.urlopen` functions and methods.
-
 * :mod:`wsgiref`: ``SimpleHandler.stdout.write()`` should not do partial
   writes.
 

Doc/library/urllib.request.rst

@@ -67,8 +67,7 @@ The :mod:`urllib.request` module defines the following functions:
    the response headers as it is specified in the documentation for
    :class:`~http.client.HTTPResponse`.
 
-   For FTP, file, and data URLs and requests explicitly handled by legacy
-   :class:`URLopener` and :class:`FancyURLopener` classes, this function
+   For FTP, file, and data URLs, this function
    returns a :class:`urllib.response.addinfourl` object.
 
    Raises :exc:`~urllib.error.URLError` on protocol errors.
@@ -1339,15 +1338,15 @@ environment settings::
 
    >>> import urllib.request
    >>> proxies = {'http': 'http://proxy.example.com:8080/'}
-   >>> opener = urllib.request.FancyURLopener(proxies)
+   >>> opener = urllib.request.build_opener(urllib.request.ProxyHandler(proxies))
    >>> with opener.open("http://www.python.org") as f:
    ...     f.read().decode('utf-8')
    ...
 
 The following example uses no proxies at all, overriding environment settings::
 
    >>> import urllib.request
-   >>> opener = urllib.request.FancyURLopener({})
+   >>> opener = urllib.request.build_opener(urllib.request.ProxyHandler({}}))
    >>> with opener.open("http://www.python.org/") as f:
    ...     f.read().decode('utf-8')
    ...
@@ -1412,121 +1411,6 @@ some point in the future.
    Cleans up temporary files that may have been left behind by previous
    calls to :func:`urlretrieve`.
 
-.. class:: URLopener(proxies=None, **x509)
-
-   .. deprecated:: 3.3
-
-   Base class for opening and reading URLs.  Unless you need to support opening
-   objects using schemes other than :file:`http:`, :file:`ftp:`, or :file:`file:`,
-   you probably want to use :class:`FancyURLopener`.
-
-   By default, the :class:`URLopener` class sends a :mailheader:`User-Agent` header
-   of ``urllib/VVV``, where *VVV* is the :mod:`urllib` version number.
-   Applications can define their own :mailheader:`User-Agent` header by subclassing
-   :class:`URLopener` or :class:`FancyURLopener` and setting the class attribute
-   :attr:`version` to an appropriate string value in the subclass definition.
-
-   The optional *proxies* parameter should be a dictionary mapping scheme names to
-   proxy URLs, where an empty dictionary turns proxies off completely.  Its default
-   value is ``None``, in which case environmental proxy settings will be used if
-   present, as discussed in the definition of :func:`urlopen`, above.
-
-   Additional keyword parameters, collected in *x509*, may be used for
-   authentication of the client when using the :file:`https:` scheme.  The keywords
-   *key_file* and *cert_file* are supported to provide an  SSL key and certificate;
-   both are needed to support client authentication.
-
-   :class:`URLopener` objects will raise an :exc:`OSError` exception if the server
-   returns an error code.
-
-   .. method:: open(fullurl, data=None)
-
-      Open *fullurl* using the appropriate protocol.  This method sets up cache and
-      proxy information, then calls the appropriate open method with its input
-      arguments.  If the scheme is not recognized, :meth:`open_unknown` is called.
-      The *data* argument has the same meaning as the *data* argument of
-      :func:`urlopen`.
-
-      This method always quotes *fullurl* using :func:`~urllib.parse.quote`.
-
-   .. method:: open_unknown(fullurl, data=None)
-
-      Overridable interface to open unknown URL types.
-
-
-   .. method:: retrieve(url, filename=None, reporthook=None, data=None)
-
-      Retrieves the contents of *url* and places it in *filename*.  The return value
-      is a tuple consisting of a local filename and either an
-      :class:`email.message.Message` object containing the response headers (for remote
-      URLs) or ``None`` (for local URLs).  The caller must then open and read the
-      contents of *filename*.  If *filename* is not given and the URL refers to a
-      local file, the input filename is returned.  If the URL is non-local and
-      *filename* is not given, the filename is the output of :func:`tempfile.mktemp`
-      with a suffix that matches the suffix of the last path component of the input
-      URL.  If *reporthook* is given, it must be a function accepting three numeric
-      parameters: A chunk number, the maximum size chunks are read in and the total size of the download
-      (-1 if unknown).  It will be called once at the start and after each chunk of data is read from the
-      network.  *reporthook* is ignored for local URLs.
-
-      If the *url* uses the :file:`http:` scheme identifier, the optional *data*
-      argument may be given to specify a ``POST`` request (normally the request type
-      is ``GET``).  The *data* argument must in standard
-      :mimetype:`application/x-www-form-urlencoded` format; see the
-      :func:`urllib.parse.urlencode` function.
-
-
-   .. attribute:: version
-
-      Variable that specifies the user agent of the opener object.  To get
-      :mod:`urllib` to tell servers that it is a particular user agent, set this in a
-      subclass as a class variable or in the constructor before calling the base
-      constructor.
-
-
-.. class:: FancyURLopener(...)
-
-   .. deprecated:: 3.3
-
-   :class:`FancyURLopener` subclasses :class:`URLopener` providing default handling
-   for the following HTTP response codes: 301, 302, 303, 307 and 401.  For the 30x
-   response codes listed above, the :mailheader:`Location` header is used to fetch
-   the actual URL.  For 401 response codes (authentication required), basic HTTP
-   authentication is performed.  For the 30x response codes, recursion is bounded
-   by the value of the *maxtries* attribute, which defaults to 10.
-
-   For all other response codes, the method :meth:`~BaseHandler.http_error_default` is called
-   which you can override in subclasses to handle the error appropriately.
-
-   .. note::
-
-      According to the letter of :rfc:`2616`, 301 and 302 responses to POST requests
-      must not be automatically redirected without confirmation by the user.  In
-      reality, browsers do allow automatic redirection of these responses, changing
-      the POST to a GET, and :mod:`urllib` reproduces this behaviour.
-
-   The parameters to the constructor are the same as those for :class:`URLopener`.
-
-   .. note::
-
-      When performing basic authentication, a :class:`FancyURLopener` instance calls
-      its :meth:`prompt_user_passwd` method.  The default implementation asks the
-      users for the required information on the controlling terminal.  A subclass may
-      override this method to support more appropriate behavior if needed.
-
-   The :class:`FancyURLopener` class offers one additional method that should be
-   overloaded to provide the appropriate behavior:
-
-   .. method:: prompt_user_passwd(host, realm)
-
-      Return information needed to authenticate the user at the given host in the
-      specified security realm.  The return value should be a tuple, ``(user,
-      password)``, which can be used for basic authentication.
-
-      The implementation prompts for this information on the terminal; an application
-      should override this method to use an appropriate interaction model in the local
-      environment.
-
 
 :mod:`urllib.request` Restrictions
 ----------------------------------
@@ -1578,8 +1462,7 @@ some point in the future.
   you try to fetch a file whose read permissions make it inaccessible; the FTP
   code will try to read it, fail with a 550 error, and then perform a directory
   listing for the unreadable file. If fine-grained control is needed, consider
-  using the :mod:`ftplib` module, subclassing :class:`FancyURLopener`, or changing
-  *_urlopener* to meet your needs.
+  using the :mod:`ftplib` module.
 
 
 

Doc/whatsnew/3.14.rst

@@ -611,6 +611,10 @@ urllib
 * Remove deprecated :class:`!Quoter` class from :mod:`urllib.parse`.
   It had previously raised a :exc:`DeprecationWarning` since Python 3.11.
   (Contributed by Nikita Sobolev in :gh:`118827`.)
+* Remove deprecated :class:`!URLopener` and :class:`!FancyURLopener` classes
+  from :mod:`urllib.request`. They had previously raised a
+  :exc:`DeprecationWarning` since Python 3.3.
+  (Contributed by Barney Gale in gh:`84850`.)
 
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