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Remove deprecated and unused TarInfo.tarfile attribute for 3.16 #149634

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Remove deprecated and unused TarInfo.tarfile attribute for 3.16#149634
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sobolevn
opened on May 10, 2026

Feature or enhancement

Refs #115256
Refs #115257

This code is scheduled to be removed in 3.16:

cpython/Lib/tarfile.py

Lines 945 to 961 in a2c1657

@property
def tarfile(self):
import warnings
warnings.warn(
'The undocumented "tarfile" attribute of TarInfo objects '
+ 'is deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.16',
DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
return self._tarfile
@tarfile.setter
def tarfile(self, tarfile):
import warnings
warnings.warn(
'The undocumented "tarfile" attribute of TarInfo objects '
+ 'is deprecated and will be removed in Python 3.16',
DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
self._tarfile = tarfile

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  1. sobolevn
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    on May 10, 2026
  2. sobolevn
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    on May 10, 2026
  3. StanFromIreland
    added this to Tarfile issues 🗄️on May 10, 2026
  4. encukou
    added a commit that references this issue on May 11, 2026

    gh-149634: Remove deprecated and unused `tarfile.Tarfile.tarfile` attr (

    0108843
  5. encukou
    closed this as completedon May 11, 2026
  6. github-project-automation
    moved this to Done in Tarfile issues 🗄️on May 11, 2026
  7. zware
    changed the title [-]Remove deprecated and unused `Tarfile.tarfile` attribute for 3.16[/-] [+]Remove deprecated and unused `TarInfo.tarfile` attribute for 3.16[/+] on May 11, 2026
  8. sobolevn
    added a commit that references this issue on May 11, 2026

    gh-149634: Fix removed docs from `TarFile.tarfile` to `TarInfo.tarfil…

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