Commit 13b4c417 authored by Andrew M. Kuchling's avatar Andrew M. Kuchling

Mention deprecation of rotor module

parent fb5f4854
......@@ -1575,10 +1575,15 @@ so. If you have applications using \module{rexec}, rewrite them to
use something else.
(Sticking with Python 2.2 or 2.1 will not make your applications any
safer, because there are known bugs in the \module{rexec} module in
safer because there are known bugs in the \module{rexec} module in
those versions. I repeat, if you're using \module{rexec}, stop using
it immediately.)
\item The \module{rotor} module has been deprecated because the
algorithm it uses for encryption is not believed to be secure. If
you need encryption, use one of the several AES Python modules
that are available separately.
\item The \module{shutil} module gained a \function{move(\var{src},
\var{dest})} function that recursively moves a file or directory to a new
location.
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