[3.6] bpo-33967: Remove use of deprecated assertRaisesRegexp() (GH-8261) by miss-islington · Pull Request #8295 · python/cpython

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It was added in test_functools at 445f1b3.
(cherry picked from commit 9e9b2c3)

Co-authored-by: Zackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com>

gaborbernat added a commit to gaborbernat/cpython that referenced this pull request

Jun 3, 2026

Introduced in python#8295 alongside shutil.unpack_archive() as a helper that
created the parent directory of each extracted member.

Orphaned by pythongh-146581 (pythonGH-146591), the ZIP path-traversal fix, which
reworked _unpack_zipfile() to create directories inline and deleted the
last _ensure_directory(targetpath) call site in the same change.

Since then the private helper has had no caller: a word-boundary search
across Lib, Modules, Python, Objects and Include finds zero references
outside its own definition, and a GitHub code search finds no downstream
importers.

This was referenced

Jun 3, 2026

gaborbernat added a commit to gaborbernat/cpython that referenced this pull request

Jun 3, 2026

Introduced in python#8295 alongside shutil.unpack_archive() as a helper that
created the parent directory of each extracted member.

Orphaned by pythongh-146581 (pythonGH-146591), the ZIP path-traversal fix, which
reworked _unpack_zipfile() to create directories inline and deleted the
last _ensure_directory(targetpath) call site in the same change.

Since then the private helper has had no caller: a word-boundary search
across Lib, Modules, Python, Objects and Include finds zero references
outside its own definition, and a GitHub code search finds no downstream
importers.