From: Ammar Askar <ammar@ammaraskar.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 10:35:01 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: bpo-39361: Document the removal of PyTypeObject.tp_print (GH-18125)
X-Git-Tag: v3.9.0a3~7
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2d5097663d7f80921fb07cdcd26c9d59cf71f1a2;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

bpo-39361: Document the removal of PyTypeObject.tp_print (GH-18125)
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
index ff5cb1486f9b..9b5b4fb37851 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
@@ -323,6 +323,11 @@ Build and C API Changes
   removed in Python 3.3.
   (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`38896`.)
 
+* The ``tp_print`` slot of :ref:`PyTypeObject <type-structs>` has been removed.
+  It was used for printing objects to files in Python 2.7 and before. Since
+  Python 3.0, it has been ignored and unused.
+  (Contributed by Jeroen Demeyer in :issue:`36974`.)
+
 
 Deprecated
 ==========