gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the telnetlib module (#104778)

Author: vstinner

Doc/library/superseded.rst

@@ -27,6 +27,5 @@ backwards compatibility. They have been superseded by other modules.
    sndhdr.rst
    spwd.rst
    sunau.rst
-   telnetlib.rst
    uu.rst
    xdrlib.rst

Doc/library/telnetlib.rst

@@ -215,7 +215,6 @@ Doc/library/sys_path_init.rst
 Doc/library/sysconfig.rst
 Doc/library/syslog.rst
 Doc/library/tarfile.rst
-Doc/library/telnetlib.rst
 Doc/library/tempfile.rst
 Doc/library/termios.rst
 Doc/library/test.rst

Doc/tools/.nitignore

@@ -2465,7 +2465,7 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
   (All changes contributed by Lars Gustäbel).
 
 * An optional ``timeout`` parameter was added to the
-  :class:`telnetlib.Telnet` class constructor, specifying a timeout
+  :class:`!telnetlib.Telnet` class constructor, specifying a timeout
   measured in seconds.  (Added by Facundo Batista.)
 
 * The :class:`tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile` class usually deletes

Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst

@@ -1731,7 +1731,7 @@ Modules
   slated for removal in Python 3.13:
 
   +---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
-  | :mod:`aifc`         | :mod:`chunk`        | :mod:`msilib`       | :mod:`pipes`        | :mod:`telnetlib`    |
+  | :mod:`aifc`         | :mod:`chunk`        | :mod:`msilib`       | :mod:`pipes`        | :mod:`!telnetlib`   |
   +---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
   | :mod:`audioop`      | :mod:`crypt`        | :mod:`nis`          | :mod:`sndhdr`       | :mod:`uu`           |
   +---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+

Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst

@@ -819,7 +819,7 @@ Modules (see :pep:`594`):
 * :mod:`sndhdr`
 * :mod:`spwd`
 * :mod:`sunau`
-* :mod:`telnetlib`
+* :mod:`!telnetlib`
 * :mod:`uu`
 * :mod:`xdrlib`
 

Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst

@@ -102,6 +102,10 @@ Deprecated
 Removed
 =======
 
+* :pep:`594`: Remove the :mod:`!telnetlib` module, deprecated in Python 3.11:
+  use the projects `telnetlib3 <https://pypi.org/project/telnetlib3/>`_ or
+  `Exscript <https://pypi.org/project/Exscript/>`_ instead.
+  (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :gh:`104773`.)
 
 
 Porting to Python 3.13

Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst

@@ -1520,7 +1520,7 @@ rather than the version that is being emulated for the process
 telnetlib
 ---------
 
-:class:`~telnetlib.Telnet` is now a context manager (contributed by
+:class:`!telnetlib.Telnet` is now a context manager (contributed by
 Stéphane Wirtel in :issue:`25485`).