DeprecationWarning: 'cgi' is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.13

[jugmac00]

git clone https://github.com/morepath/morepath
cd morepath
tox -e py311

...

.tox/py311/lib/python3.11/site-packages/webob/compat.py:5
  /home/jugmac00/Projects/my-all-repos/output_zope/morepath/morepath/.tox/py311/lib/python3.11/site-packages/webob/compat.py:5: DeprecationWarning: 'cgi' is deprecated and slated for removal in Python 3.13
    from cgi import parse_header

Also see:
https://peps.python.org/pep-0594/#cgi

And yes I know - it will take a couple of years until anybody will use 3.14 :-)

Anyhow, seeing the same deprecation warnings with every test run is slightly annoying. If you are ok with the suggested replacement (see pep), I'd create a PR.

[mmerickel]

webob has bigger problems with cgi than just the parse_header method but that being said I don’t see a big problem with the suggested fix. I would require a little due diligence to ensure that they are actually compatible apis.

Bitter rant: due diligence because the pep isn’t very trustworthy in its analyses from the perspective of the maintainer of a very popular library that’s apparently using a library so unpopular that it’s getting dropped from the stdlib.

[ondrejj]

Any update for this issue?

Reported in red hat bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2245641

[ztane]

The title could now be changed to "ImportError: no such module cgi" :'D

[ztane]

Anyway, the cgi.py of 3.11 at least, contains ~1k lines in one file, of which ~700 lines are actually relevant, there is some unbelievable CGI html output garbage and some logging methods so I can understand why people want it gone, is it license-wise possible to vendor the 3.11 / 3.12 version into WebOb compat?

And with all due respect to Martijn for proposing those replacements; those replacement strategies are already in use in cgi.py as far as I can see and what remains... are those 700 lines of code.

[spiqueras]

In case there's interest, I've tested installing the legacy-cgi package with Python 3.13.0a3 and all tests pass. Branch is here: https://github.com/spiqueras/webob/tree/py3.13

[mgorny]

Python 3.13.0b1 is out, and the cgi removal is "official" now.

[robtaylor]

any update on this?

[luhn]

I opened a PR to swap out cgi for the multipart package: #466

[mgorny]

For the record, multipart is not usable at the moment because two package authors claim the same package name, neither wants to give up, and packages randomly require one or the other: defnull/multipart#53 Kludex/python-multipart#152.