gh-104773: PEP 594: Remove the xdrlib module (#104900)

pickle documentation no longer mentions the XDR format.

Author: vstinner

Doc/library/array.rst

@@ -260,10 +260,6 @@ Examples::
    Module :mod:`struct`
       Packing and unpacking of heterogeneous binary data.
 
-   Module :mod:`xdrlib`
-      Packing and unpacking of External Data Representation (XDR) data as used in some
-      remote procedure call systems.
-
    `NumPy <https://numpy.org/>`_
       The NumPy package defines another array type.
 

Doc/library/pickle.rst

@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ Data stream format
 
 The data format used by :mod:`pickle` is Python-specific.  This has the
 advantage that there are no restrictions imposed by external standards such as
-JSON or XDR (which can't represent pointer sharing); however it means that
+JSON (which can't represent pointer sharing); however it means that
 non-Python programs may not be able to reconstruct pickled Python objects.
 
 By default, the :mod:`pickle` data format uses a relatively compact binary

Doc/library/superseded.rst

@@ -18,4 +18,3 @@ backwards compatibility. They have been superseded by other modules.
    msilib.rst
    optparse.rst
    uu.rst
-   xdrlib.rst

Doc/library/xdrlib.rst

@@ -237,7 +237,6 @@ Doc/library/webbrowser.rst
 Doc/library/winreg.rst
 Doc/library/winsound.rst
 Doc/library/wsgiref.rst
-Doc/library/xdrlib.rst
 Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst
 Doc/library/xml.dom.pulldom.rst
 Doc/library/xml.dom.rst

Doc/tools/.nitignore

@@ -1735,7 +1735,7 @@ Modules
   +---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
   | :mod:`audioop`      | :mod:`crypt`        | :mod:`!nis`         | :mod:`!sndhdr`      | :mod:`uu`           |
   +---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
-  | :mod:`!cgi`         | :mod:`imghdr`       | :mod:`!nntplib`     | :mod:`!spwd`        | :mod:`xdrlib`       |
+  | :mod:`!cgi`         | :mod:`imghdr`       | :mod:`!nntplib`     | :mod:`!spwd`        | :mod:`!xdrlib`      |
   +---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+
   | :mod:`!cgitb`       | :mod:`!mailcap`     | :mod:`!ossaudiodev` | :mod:`!sunau`       |                     |
   +---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+---------------------+

Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst

@@ -904,7 +904,7 @@ Modules (see :pep:`594`):
 * :mod:`!sunau`
 * :mod:`!telnetlib`
 * :mod:`uu`
-* :mod:`xdrlib`
+* :mod:`!xdrlib`
 
 APIs:
 

Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst

@@ -195,6 +195,9 @@ Removed
 * :pep:`594`: Remove the :mod:`!nis` module, deprecated in Python 3.11.
   (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :gh:`104773`.)
 
+* :pep:`594`: Remove the :mod:`!xdrlib` module, deprecated in Python 3.11.
+  (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :gh:`104773`.)
+
 
 Porting to Python 3.13
 ======================