gh-104783: Remove locale.resetlocale() function (#104784)

Author: vstinner

Doc/library/locale.rst

@@ -370,16 +370,6 @@ The :mod:`locale` module defines the following exception and functions:
    encoding for the locale code just like :func:`setlocale`.
 
 
-.. function:: resetlocale(category=LC_ALL)
-
-   Sets the locale for *category* to the default setting.
-
-   The default setting is determined by calling :func:`getdefaultlocale`.
-   *category* defaults to :const:`LC_ALL`.
-
-   .. deprecated-removed:: 3.11 3.13
-
-
 .. function:: strcoll(string1, string2)
 
    Compares two strings according to the current :const:`LC_COLLATE` setting. As

Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst

@@ -1079,6 +1079,7 @@ APIs:
 
 * :class:`!configparser.LegacyInterpolation` (:gh:`90765`)
 * :func:`locale.getdefaultlocale` (:gh:`90817`)
+* ``locale.resetlocale()`` (:gh:`90817`)
 * :meth:`!turtle.RawTurtle.settiltangle` (:gh:`50096`)
 * :func:`!unittest.findTestCases` (:gh:`50096`)
 * :func:`!unittest.getTestCaseNames` (:gh:`50096`)

Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst

@@ -306,6 +306,10 @@ Removed
   added in Python 3.8 and the old macros were deprecated in Python 3.11.
   (Contributed by Irit Katriel in :gh:`105111`.)
 
+* Remove ``locale.resetlocale()`` function deprecated in Python 3.11:
+  use ``locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")`` instead.
+  (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :gh:`104783`.)
+
 
 Porting to Python 3.13
 ======================

Lib/locale.py

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 # Yuck:  LC_MESSAGES is non-standard:  can't tell whether it exists before
 # trying the import.  So __all__ is also fiddled at the end of the file.
 __all__ = ["getlocale", "getdefaultlocale", "getpreferredencoding", "Error",
-           "setlocale", "resetlocale", "localeconv", "strcoll", "strxfrm",
+           "setlocale", "localeconv", "strcoll", "strxfrm",
            "str", "atof", "atoi", "format_string", "currency",
            "normalize", "LC_CTYPE", "LC_COLLATE", "LC_TIME", "LC_MONETARY",
            "LC_NUMERIC", "LC_ALL", "CHAR_MAX", "getencoding"]
@@ -612,26 +612,6 @@ def setlocale(category, locale=None):
         locale = normalize(_build_localename(locale))
     return _setlocale(category, locale)
 
-def resetlocale(category=LC_ALL):
-
-    """ Sets the locale for category to the default setting.
-
-        The default setting is determined by calling
-        getdefaultlocale(). category defaults to LC_ALL.
-
-    """
-    import warnings
-    warnings.warn(
-        'Use locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "") instead',
-        DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2
-    )
-
-    with warnings.catch_warnings():
-        warnings.simplefilter('ignore', category=DeprecationWarning)
-        loc = getdefaultlocale()
-
-    _setlocale(category, _build_localename(loc))
-
 
 try:
     from _locale import getencoding
@@ -1729,17 +1709,6 @@ def _init_categories(categories=categories):
         print('   Encoding: ', enc or '(undefined)')
         print()
 
-    print()
-    print('Locale settings after calling resetlocale():')
-    print('-'*72)
-    resetlocale()
-    for name,category in categories.items():
-        print(name, '...')
-        lang, enc = getlocale(category)
-        print('   Language: ', lang or '(undefined)')
-        print('   Encoding: ', enc or '(undefined)')
-        print()
-
     try:
         setlocale(LC_ALL, "")
     except:

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-05-23-04-01-27.gh-issue-104783.QyhIoq.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Remove ``locale.resetlocale()`` function deprecated in Python 3.11.
+Patch by Victor Stinner.