[issue23200] Deprecate the zlib decompressor’s flush() method

[Martin Panter]

Martin Panter added the comment:

See Issue 224981 (bug) and Issue 403373 (patch) about the Z_SYNC_FLUSH change (the numbers in the commit message are different and do not work).

I committed my doc change to 2.7 and 3.4+, which leaves the main problem of what to do about flush(). I propose deprecate-flush.patch for 3.6, which deprecates this method.

I ran the test suite with -Werror, so I hopefully got all the instances of flush() in the library.

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components: +Library (Lib) -Documentation
title: Clarify max_length and flush() for zlib decompression -> Deprecate the zlib decompressor’s flush() method
versions: +Python 3.6 -Python 3.4
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file41067/deprecate-flush.patch

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