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authorPierre Sassoulas <pierre.sassoulas@gmail.com>2021-08-31 22:15:29 +0200
committerPierre Sassoulas <pierre.sassoulas@gmail.com>2021-09-01 08:27:04 +0200
commit5f96098d658fd9c1b59c5f1675033485e1b3bad0 (patch)
treecfb6d8f4d46f7aa05c73b6cc10cabde3c7eae5de /doc
parentca9eddc137936d1ffe83ec78d051f1b23f7c27b1 (diff)
downloadpylint-git-5f96098d658fd9c1b59c5f1675033485e1b3bad0.tar.gz
Remove the python3 porting mode from the codebase
It's possible to use the python3 porting checker from an older pylint version. But it's not evolving anymore and was costing resource to maintain.
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-rw-r--r--doc/whatsnew/2.11.rst5
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/faq.rst b/doc/faq.rst
index 02e252457..479d3c052 100644
--- a/doc/faq.rst
+++ b/doc/faq.rst
@@ -192,9 +192,7 @@ tricks like: ::
pylint does have some messages disabled by default, either because
they are prone to false positives or that they are opinionated enough
-for not being included as default messages. But most of the disabled
-messages are from the Python 3 porting checker, which is disabled by
-default. It needs special activation with the ``--py3k`` flag.
+for not being included as default messages.
You can see the plugin you need to explicitly `load in the technical reference`_
diff --git a/doc/whatsnew/2.11.rst b/doc/whatsnew/2.11.rst
index e91199fb0..8a9161c71 100644
--- a/doc/whatsnew/2.11.rst
+++ b/doc/whatsnew/2.11.rst
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ New checkers
Closes #3592
+Removed checkers
+================
+
+* The python3 porting mode checker and it's ``py3k`` option were removed. You can still find it in older pylint
+ versions.
Extensions
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