bpo-35471: Remove the macpath module (GH-11129)

Python 2.4 dropped MacOS 9 support. The macpath module was deprecated
in Python 3.7. This change removes it.

Author: vstinner

Doc/library/filesys.rst

@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ in this chapter is:
    fnmatch.rst
    linecache.rst
    shutil.rst
-   macpath.rst
 
 
 .. seealso::

Doc/library/macpath.rst

@@ -4,9 +4,8 @@
 .. module:: os.path
    :synopsis: Operations on pathnames.
 
-**Source code:** :source:`Lib/posixpath.py` (for POSIX),
-:source:`Lib/ntpath.py` (for Windows NT),
-and :source:`Lib/macpath.py` (for Macintosh)
+**Source code:** :source:`Lib/posixpath.py` (for POSIX) and
+:source:`Lib/ntpath.py` (for Windows NT).
 
 .. index:: single: path; operations
 
@@ -52,7 +51,6 @@ the :mod:`glob` module.)
 
    * :mod:`posixpath` for UNIX-style paths
    * :mod:`ntpath` for Windows paths
-   * :mod:`macpath` for old-style MacOS paths
 
 
 .. versionchanged:: 3.8

Doc/library/os.path.rst

@@ -378,6 +378,9 @@ API and Feature Removals
 
 The following features and APIs have been removed from Python 3.8:
 
+* The :mod:`macpath` module, deprecated in Python 3.7, has been removed.
+  (Contributed by Victor Stinner in :issue:`35471`.)
+
 * The function :func:`platform.popen` has been removed, it was deprecated since
   Python 3.3: use :func:`os.popen` instead.
 

Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst

@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 
 Instead of importing this module directly, import os and refer to
 this module as os.path.  The "os.path" name is an alias for this
-module on Posix systems; on other systems (e.g. Mac, Windows),
+module on Posix systems; on other systems (e.g. Windows),
 os.path provides the same operations in a manner specific to that
-platform, and is an alias to another module (e.g. macpath, ntpath).
+platform, and is an alias to another module (e.g. ntpath).
 
 Some of this can actually be useful on non-Posix systems too, e.g.
 for manipulation of the pathname component of URLs.

Lib/macpath.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 """
-Tests common to genericpath, macpath, ntpath and posixpath
+Tests common to genericpath, ntpath and posixpath
 """
 
 import genericpath
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ def test_invalid_paths(self):
                         func(b'/tmp\x00abcds')
 
 # Following TestCase is not supposed to be run from test_genericpath.
-# It is inherited by other test modules (macpath, ntpath, posixpath).
+# It is inherited by other test modules (ntpath, posixpath).
 
 class CommonTest(GenericTest):
     common_attributes = GenericTest.common_attributes + [
@@ -373,8 +373,6 @@ def test_splitdrive(self):
         self.assertEqual(splitdrive(b":foo:bar"), (b"", b":foo:bar"))
 
     def test_expandvars(self):
-        if self.pathmodule.__name__ == 'macpath':
-            self.skipTest('macpath.expandvars is a stub')
         expandvars = self.pathmodule.expandvars
         with support.EnvironmentVarGuard() as env:
             env.clear()
@@ -407,8 +405,6 @@ def test_expandvars(self):
 
     @unittest.skipUnless(support.FS_NONASCII, 'need support.FS_NONASCII')
     def test_expandvars_nonascii(self):
-        if self.pathmodule.__name__ == 'macpath':
-            self.skipTest('macpath.expandvars is a stub')
         expandvars = self.pathmodule.expandvars
         def check(value, expected):
             self.assertEqual(expandvars(value), expected)