The string module isn't really deprecated, just parts of it.

[smontanaro]

​Pylint has been complaining about the string module being deprecated for about as long as I can remember. I've seen no indication that it will ever go away completely. It's certainly still the only place to get a number of useful string constants (ascii_letters, digits, punctuation, ...). A bunch of string functions were dumped in the 2-to-3 change. If pylint is going to complain about the string module, I would suggest:

• In Python 2, it only complain about names which are no longer present in the Python 3 version:

['atof', 'atof_error', 'atoi', 'atoi_error', 'atol', 'atol_error', 'capitalize', 'center', 'count', 'expandtabs', 'find', 'index', 'index_error', 'join', 'joinfields', 'letters', 'ljust', 'lower', 'lowercase', 'lstrip', 'maketrans', 'replace', 'rfind', 'rindex', 'rjust', 'rsplit', 'rstrip', 'split', 'splitfields', 'strip', 'swapcase', 'translate', 'upper', 'uppercase', 'zfill']

(This would be a useful addition to the Python 2 version before dropping support altogether.)

​* In Python 3, disable the warning about string module deprecation altogether.​ It ain't broken. There's nothing to fix. :-)

[PCManticore]

Thanks for the issue @smontanaro ! If I'm not mistaken, we don't warn about string being deprecated for a couple of releases now. Are you using the latest 1.8 release and still have this issue?
Regarding complaining about those names in the porting checker, that's a great idea and we already do that: https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/blob/e0aafa646a6aaf90603e7d595e9df922c27e3228/pylint/checkers/python3.py#L551. But we were missing a couple of these members, so I added them in 647b9f0

[smontanaro]

Claudiu,

You were correct that I wasn't using the latest version of pylint. I updated from 1.7.4 to 1.8.3, but I still received the same complaint. I didn't get the warning message on my home computer, and was scratching my head for a long while about why I kept getting that message on my work computer. Then I found a list of deprecated modules in my ~/.pylintrc dating from 2016. I imagine that is the product of a run with --generate-rcfile. Who knows what version of pylint I had installed at that time...

So, mea culpa.