bpo-45173: Note these configparser deprecations will be removed in 3.12

Author: hugovk

Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst

@@ -457,6 +457,16 @@ Deprecated
   as deprecated, its docstring is now corrected).
   (Contributed by Hugo van Kemenade in :issue:`45837`.)
 
+* The following have been deprecated in :mod:`configparser` since Python 3.2.
+  Their deprecation warnings have now been updated to note they will removed in
+  Python 3.12:
+
+  * the :class:`configparser.SafeConfigParser` class
+  * the :attr:`configparser.ParsingError.filename` property
+  * the :meth:`configparser.ParsingError.readfp` method
+
+  (Contributed by Hugo van Kemenade in :issue:`45173`.)
+
 Removed
 =======
 

Lib/configparser.py

@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ def __init__(self, source=None, filename=None):
     def filename(self):
         """Deprecated, use `source'."""
         warnings.warn(
-            "The 'filename' attribute will be removed in future versions.  "
+            "The 'filename' attribute will be removed in Python 3.12. "
             "Use 'source' instead.",
             DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2
         )
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ def filename(self):
     def filename(self, value):
         """Deprecated, user `source'."""
         warnings.warn(
-            "The 'filename' attribute will be removed in future versions.  "
+            "The 'filename' attribute will be removed in Python 3.12. "
             "Use 'source' instead.",
             DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2
         )
@@ -757,7 +757,7 @@ def read_dict(self, dictionary, source='<dict>'):
     def readfp(self, fp, filename=None):
         """Deprecated, use read_file instead."""
         warnings.warn(
-            "This method will be removed in future versions.  "
+            "This method will be removed in Python 3.12. "
             "Use 'parser.read_file()' instead.",
             DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2
         )
@@ -1232,7 +1232,7 @@ def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
         warnings.warn(
             "The SafeConfigParser class has been renamed to ConfigParser "
-            "in Python 3.2. This alias will be removed in future versions."
+            "in Python 3.2. This alias will be removed in Python 3.12."
             " Use ConfigParser directly instead.",
             DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2
         )

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2022-01-27-11-16-59.bpo-45173.wreRF2.rst

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Note the configparser deprecations will be removed in Python 3.12.