Remove the sre module.

Lib/sre.py

-"""This file is only retained for backwards compatibility.
-It will be removed in the future.  sre was moved to re in version 2.5.
-"""
-
-import warnings
-warnings.warn("The sre module is deprecated, please import re.",
-              DeprecationWarning, 2)
-
-from re import *
-from re import __all__
-
-# old pickles expect the _compile() reconstructor in this module
-from re import _compile

Lib/test/test_re.py

@@ -434,16 +434,6 @@ class ReTests(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(pat.match(p) is not None, True)
         self.assertEqual(pat.match(p).span(), (0,256))
 
-    def test_pickling(self):
-        import pickle
-        self.pickle_test(pickle)
-        # old pickles expect the _compile() reconstructor in sre module
-        import warnings
-        with catch_warning():
-            warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", "The sre module is deprecated",
-                                    DeprecationWarning)
-            from sre import _compile
-
     def pickle_test(self, pickle):
         oldpat = re.compile('a(?:b|(c|e){1,2}?|d)+?(.)')
         s = pickle.dumps(oldpat)

Misc/NEWS

@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ Extension Modules
 Library
 -------
 
+- The sre module has been removed.
+
 - The PixMapWrapper module has been renamed to pixmapwrapper.
 
 - The Queue module has been renamed to queue.