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		mxey 27 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Deprecate like you mean it > 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

Spivak 27 days ago [–]

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.

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