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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
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removed. They were deprecated since Python 3.7.
(Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`37320`.)

* The :meth:`~threading.Thread.isAlive()` method of :class:`threading.Thread`
has been removed. It was deprecated since Python 3.8.
Use :meth:`~threading.Thread.is_alive()` instead.
(Contributed by Dong-hee Na in :issue:`37804`.)

Porting to Python 3.9
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2 changes: 0 additions & 2 deletions Lib/test/test_threading.py
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t.setDaemon(True)
t.getName()
t.setName("name")
with self.assertWarnsRegex(DeprecationWarning, 'use is_alive()'):
t.isAlive()
e = threading.Event()
e.isSet()
threading.activeCount()
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10 changes: 0 additions & 10 deletions Lib/threading.py
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Expand Up @@ -1088,16 +1088,6 @@ def is_alive(self):
self._wait_for_tstate_lock(False)
return not self._is_stopped

def isAlive(self):
"""Return whether the thread is alive.

This method is deprecated, use is_alive() instead.
"""
import warnings
warnings.warn('isAlive() is deprecated, use is_alive() instead',
DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
return self.is_alive()

@property
def daemon(self):
"""A boolean value indicating whether this thread is a daemon thread.
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-08-12-23-07-47.bpo-37804.Ene6L-.rst
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Remove the deprecated method `threading.Thread.isAlive()`. Patch by Dong-hee
Na.