Issue #10807: Remove base64, bz2, hex, quopri, rot13, uu and zlib codecs from

the codec aliases. They are still accessible via codecs.lookup().

Lib/encodings/aliases.py

@@ -33,9 +33,9 @@ aliases = {
     'us'                 : 'ascii',
     'us_ascii'           : 'ascii',
 
-    # base64_codec codec
-    'base64'             : 'base64_codec',
-    'base_64'            : 'base64_codec',
+    ## base64_codec codec
+    #'base64'             : 'base64_codec',
+    #'base_64'            : 'base64_codec',
 
     # big5 codec
     'big5_tw'            : 'big5',
@@ -45,8 +45,8 @@ aliases = {
     'big5_hkscs'         : 'big5hkscs',
     'hkscs'              : 'big5hkscs',
 
-    # bz2_codec codec
-    'bz2'                : 'bz2_codec',
+    ## bz2_codec codec
+    #'bz2'                : 'bz2_codec',
 
     # cp037 codec
     '037'                : 'cp037',
@@ -248,8 +248,8 @@ aliases = {
     'cp936'              : 'gbk',
     'ms936'              : 'gbk',
 
-    # hex_codec codec
-    'hex'                : 'hex_codec',
+    ## hex_codec codec
+    #'hex'                : 'hex_codec',
 
     # hp_roman8 codec
     'roman8'             : 'hp_roman8',
@@ -450,13 +450,13 @@ aliases = {
     'cp154'              : 'ptcp154',
     'cyrillic_asian'     : 'ptcp154',
 
-    # quopri_codec codec
-    'quopri'             : 'quopri_codec',
-    'quoted_printable'   : 'quopri_codec',
-    'quotedprintable'    : 'quopri_codec',
+    ## quopri_codec codec
+    #'quopri'             : 'quopri_codec',
+    #'quoted_printable'   : 'quopri_codec',
+    #'quotedprintable'    : 'quopri_codec',
 
-    # rot_13 codec
-    'rot13'              : 'rot_13',
+    ## rot_13 codec
+    #'rot13'              : 'rot_13',
 
     # shift_jis codec
     'csshiftjis'         : 'shift_jis',
@@ -518,12 +518,12 @@ aliases = {
     'utf8_ucs2'          : 'utf_8',
     'utf8_ucs4'          : 'utf_8',
 
-    # uu_codec codec
-    'uu'                 : 'uu_codec',
+    ## uu_codec codec
+    #'uu'                 : 'uu_codec',
 
-    # zlib_codec codec
-    'zip'                : 'zlib_codec',
-    'zlib'               : 'zlib_codec',
+    ## zlib_codec codec
+    #'zip'                : 'zlib_codec',
+    #'zlib'               : 'zlib_codec',
 
     # temporary mac CJK aliases, will be replaced by proper codecs in 3.1
     'x_mac_japanese'      : 'shift_jis',

Misc/NEWS

@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #10807: Remove base64, bz2, hex, quopri, rot13, uu and zlib codecs from
+  the codec aliases. They are still accessible via codecs.lookup().
+
 - Issue #10801: In zipfile, support different encodings for the header and
   the filenames.