ROADMAP.rst

Current release

• Python 3.6 support will be discontinued soon.

Deprecations

• 8.4.0: Python 3.6 support is deprecated and will be dropped soon with Pywikibot 9
• 8.4.0: modules_only_mode parameter of :class:`data.api.ParamInfo`, its paraminfo_keys class attribute and its preloaded_modules property will be removed
• 8.4.0: dropdelay and releasepid attributes of :class:`throttle.Throttle` will be removed in favour of expiry class attribute
• 8.2.0: :func:`tools.itertools.itergroup` will be removed in favour of :func:`backports.batched`
• 8.2.0: normalize parameter of :meth:`WbTime.toTimestr` and :meth:`WbTime.toWikibase` will be removed
• 8.1.0: Dependency of :exc:`exceptions.NoSiteLinkError` from :exc:`exceptions.NoPageError` will be removed
• 8.1.0: exceptions.Server414Error is deprecated in favour of :exc:`exceptions.Client414Error`
• 8.0.0: :meth:`Timestamp.clone()<pywikibot.time.Timestamp.clone>` method is deprecated in favour of Timestamp.replace() method.
• 8.0.0: :meth:`family.Family.maximum_GET_length` method is deprecated in favour of :ref:`config.maximum_GET_length<Account Settings>` (:phab:`T325957`)
• 8.0.0: addOnly parameter of :func:`textlib.replaceLanguageLinks` and :func:`textlib.replaceCategoryLinks` are deprecated in favour of add_only
• 8.0.0: :class:`textlib.TimeStripper` regex attributes ptimeR, ptimeznR, pyearR, pmonthR, pdayR are deprecated in favour of patterns attribute which is a :class:`textlib.TimeStripperPatterns`.
• 8.0.0: :class:`textlib.TimeStripper` groups attribute is deprecated in favour of textlib.TIMEGROUPS
• 8.0.0: :meth:`LoginManager.get_login_token<login.ClientLoginManager.get_login_token>` was replaced by login.ClientLoginManager.site.tokens['login']
• 8.0.0: data.api.LoginManager() is deprecated in favour of :class:`login.ClientLoginManager`
• 8.0.0: :meth:`APISite.messages()<pywikibot.site._apisite.APISite.messages>` method is deprecated in favour of :attr:`userinfo['messages']<pywikibot.site._apisite.APISite.userinfo>`
• 8.0.0: :meth:`Page.editTime()<page.BasePage.editTime>` method is deprecated and should be replaced by :attr:`Page.latest_revision.timestamp<page.BasePage.latest_revision>`
• 7.7.0: :mod:`tools.threading` classes should no longer imported from :mod:`tools`
• 7.6.0: :mod:`tools.itertools` datatypes should no longer imported from :mod:`tools`
• 7.6.0: :mod:`tools.collections` datatypes should no longer imported from :mod:`tools`
• 7.5.0: :mod:`textlib`.tzoneFixedOffset class will be removed in favour of :class:`time.TZoneFixedOffset`
• 7.4.0: FilePage.usingPages() was renamed to :meth:`using_pages()<pywikibot.FilePage.using_pages>`
• 7.2.0: tb parameter of :func:`exception()<pywikibot.exception>` function was renamed to exc_info
• 7.2.0: XMLDumpOldPageGenerator is deprecated in favour of a content parameter of :func:`XMLDumpPageGenerator<pagegenerators.XMLDumpPageGenerator>` (:phab:`T306134`)
• 7.2.0: RedirectPageBot and NoRedirectPageBot bot classes are deprecated in favour of :attr:`use_redirects<bot.BaseBot.use_redirects>` attribute
• 7.2.0: :func:`tools.formatter.color_format<tools.formatter.color_format>` is deprecated and will be removed
• 7.1.0: Unused get_redirect parameter of :meth:`Page.getOldVersion()<page.BasePage.getOldVersion>` will be removed
• 7.0.0: User.isBlocked() method is renamed to is_blocked for consistency
• 7.0.0: A boolean watch parameter in Page.save() is deprecated and will be desupported
• 7.0.0: baserevid parameter of editSource(), editQualifier(), removeClaims(), removeSources(), remove_qualifiers() DataSite methods will be removed
• 7.0.0: Values of APISite.allpages() parameter filterredir other than True, False and None are deprecated
• 7.0.0: The i18n identifier 'cosmetic_changes-append' will be removed in favour of 'pywikibot-cosmetic-changes'

Will be removed in Pywikibot 9

• 6.5.0: OutputOption.output() method will be removed in favour of OutputOption.out property
• 6.5.0: Infinite rotating file handler with logfilecount of -1 is deprecated
• 6.4.0: 'allow_duplicates' parameter of :func:`tools.itertools.intersect_generators` as positional argument is deprecated, use keyword argument instead
• 6.4.0: 'iterables' of :func:`tools.itertools.intersect_generators` given as a list or tuple is deprecated, either use consecutive iterables or use '*' to unpack
• 6.2.0: outputter of OutputProxyOption without out property is deprecated
• 6.2.0: ContextOption.output_range() and HighlightContextOption.output_range() are deprecated
• 6.2.0: Error messages with '%' style is deprecated in favour for str.format() style
• 6.2.0: page.url2unicode() function is deprecated in favour of tools.chars.url2string()
• 6.2.0: Throttle.multiplydelay attribute is deprecated
• 6.2.0: SequenceOutputter.format_list() is deprecated in favour of 'out' property
• 6.0.0: config.register_family_file() is deprecated