zope.deprecation

This package provides a simple function called deprecated(names, reason) to mark deprecated modules, classes, functions, methods and properties.

Please see for the documentation.

zope.deprecation Changelog

5.0 (2023-03-29)

• Drop support for Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6.
• Drop support for deprecated python setup.py test.
• Add support for Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11.

4.4.0 (2018-12-03)

• Add support for Python 3.7.

4.3.0 (2017-08-07)

• Allow custom warning classes to be specified to override the default DeprecationWarning. See

• Add support for Python 3.6.

• Drop support for Python 3.3.

4.2.0 (2016-11-07)

• Drop support for Python 2.6 and 3.2.
• Add support for Python 3.5.

4.1.2 (2015-01-13)

• Do not require a self parameter for deprecated functions. See:

4.1.1 (2014-03-19)

• Added explicit support for Python 3.4.

4.1.0 (2013-12-20)

• Added a Suppressor context manager, allowing scoped suppression of deprecation warnings.
• Updated boostrap.py to version 2.2.

4.0.2 (2012-12-31)

• Fleshed out PyPI Trove classifiers.

4.0.1 (2012-11-21)

• Added support for Python 3.3.

4.0.0 (2012-05-16)

• Automated build of Sphinx HTML docs and running doctest snippets via tox.
• Added Sphinx documentation:
  • API docs moved from package-data README into docs/api.rst.
  • Snippets can be tested by running 'make doctest'.
• Updated support for continuous integration using tox and jenkins.
• 100% unit test coverage.
• Added setup.py dev alias (runs setup.py develop plus installs nose and coverage).
• Added setup.py docs alias (installs Sphinx and dependencies).
• Removed spurious dependency on zope.testing.
• Dropped explicit support for Python 2.4 / 2.5 / 3.1.

3.5.1 (2012-03-15)

• Revert a move of README.txt to unbreak zope.app.apidoc.

3.5.0 (2011-09-05)

• Replaced doctesting with unit testing.
• Python 3 compatibility.

3.4.1 (2011-06-07)

• Removed import cycle for __show__ by defining it in the zope.deprecation.deprecation module.
• Added support to bootstrap on Jython.
• Fix zope.deprecation.warn() to make the signature identical to warnings.warn() and to check for .pyc and .pyo files.

3.4.0 (2007-07-19)

• Release 3.4 final, corresponding to Zope 3.4.

3.3.0 (2007-02-18)

• Corresponds to the version of the zope.deprecation package shipped as part of the Zope 3.3.0 release.