alt Hacker News> Not that it is always trivial to avoid breaking backwards compatibility, but there are so many times that it would be.
In this case it was 2 functions with 1 line of code each. https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/pull/3732/files
> Not that it is always trivial to avoid breaking backwards compatibility, but there are so many times that it would be.
In this case it was 2 functions with 1 line of code each. https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/pull/3732/files
Wow. Why even remove it? It's just the thinnest wrapper around the dict and since the dict is now part of the public API these methods will work forever unmodified.