Proposal:

This issue serves as a tracker for removing the following parts of the C API:

• Global configuration variables:#133654
• Process-wide parameters:#133661
• PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock:#133655
• PyWeakref_GetObject andPyWeakref_GET_OBJECT:#133657
• Functions to configure Python's initialization (PySys_Set* & co)
• Py_UNICODE_WIDE andPy_UNICODE type

Tracked separately:

• vendored copy oflibmpdecimal:#115119. (deferred to Python 3.16)
• PyUnicode_As{Encoded,Decoded}{Object,Unicode}:#133610 cc@StanFromIreland

I'll take care of doing the other deprecation removals and updatec-api-pending-removal-in-3-15.

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

This is a minor feature, which does not need previous discussion elsewhere

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

No response

Linked PRs

• gh-133644: remove deprecated global configuration variables #133654
• gh-133644: remove deprecatedPyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock #133655
• gh-133644: removePyWeakref_GetObject andPyWeakref_GET_OBJECT #133657
• gh-133644: remove deprecated Python initialization getter functions #133661
• gh-133644: Avoid deprecated Py_SetProgramName() in _testembed.c #133665
• gh-133644: updatePy_InteractiveFlag deprecation notice #133749
• [3.14] gh-133644: updatePy_InteractiveFlag deprecation notice (GH-133749) #133751
• [3.13] gh-133644: updatePy_InteractiveFlag deprecation notice (GH-133749) #133752
• gh-133644: RemovePySys_SetArgv* for 3.15 #136277