STINNER Victor <vstin...@python.org> added the comment:
The deprecation was introduced 11 years ago in bpo-3613 by this change: commit b54d801280e3f510782e2855504710947d10f053 Author: Georg Brandl <ge...@python.org> Date: Thu Jun 4 09:11:51 2009 +0000 #3613: add base64.encodebytes and decodebytes as the new spelling of encodestring and decodestring; deprecate the latter. The aliases were deprecated for 7 cycles (Python 3.1 to Python 3.8). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue39351> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com