gh-92308: Add Pending Removal section to 3.11 What's New

Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst

@@ -1173,6 +1173,65 @@ Deprecated
   (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :gh:`91760`.)
 
 
+Pending Removal
+===============
+
+* ``Py_UNICODE`` encoder APIs are pending removal as per :pep:`624`
+
+* The entire :ref:`distutils namespace <distutils-deprecated>` is scheduled for
+  removal in Python 3.12.
+
+* The various implementations of
+  :meth:`importlib.abc.MetaPathFinder.find_module` (
+  :meth:`importlib.machinery.BuiltinImporter.find_module`,
+  :meth:`importlib.machinery.FrozenImporter.find_module`,
+  :meth:`importlib.machinery.WindowsRegistryFinder.find_module`,
+  :meth:`importlib.machinery.PathFinder.find_module`,
+  :meth:`importlib.abc.MetaPathFinder.find_module` ),
+  :meth:`importlib.abc.PathEntryFinder.find_module` (
+  :meth:`importlib.machinery.FileFinder.find_module` ), and
+  :meth:`importlib.abc.PathEntryFinder.find_loader` (
+  :meth:`importlib.machinery.FileFinder.find_loader` )
+  are slated for removal in Python 3.12.
+  (Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`42135`.)
+
+* The deprecations of :mod:`imp`, :func:`importlib.find_loader`,
+  :func:`importlib.util.set_package_wrapper`,
+  :func:`importlib.util.set_loader_wrapper`,
+  :func:`importlib.util.module_for_loader`,
+  :class:`pkgutil.ImpImporter`, and
+  :class:`pkgutil.ImpLoader` are slated for in Python 3.12.
+  (Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`43720`.)
+
+* :meth:`importlib.abc.Loadermodule_repr` is scheduled for removal in
+  Python 3.12.
+  (Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`42137`.)
+
+* :meth:`importlib.abc.Loader.module_repr`,
+  :meth:`importlib.machinery.FrozenLoader.module_repr`, and
+  :meth:`importlib.machinery.BuiltinLoader.module_repr` are
+  slated for removal in Python 3.12.
+  (Contributed by Brett Cannon in :issue:`42136`.)
+
+* Undocumented ``sqlite3.OptimizedUnicode`` is scheduled for removal in
+  Python 3.12.
+  (Contributed by Erlend E. Aasland in :issue:`42264`.)
+
+* Undocumented ``sqlite3.enable_shared_cache`` is scheduled for removal in
+  Python 3.12.
+  (Contributed by Erlend E. Aasland in :issue:`24464`.)
+
+* :meth:`pathlib.Path.link_to` is slated for removal in Python 3.12.
+  (Contributed by Barney Gale in :issue:`39950`.)
+
+* ``cgi.log()`` is slated for removal in Python 3.12.
+  (Contributed by Inada Naoki in :issue:`41139`.)
+
+* The threading debug (:envvar:`PYTHONTHREADDEBUG` environment variable) is
+  scheduled for removal in Python 3.12.
+  (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`44584`.)
+
+
 Removed
 =======