Remove support for cast of iterable of entry points to dict. Ref #97.

importlib_metadata/__init__.py

@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 import pathlib
 import operator
 import textwrap
-import warnings
 import functools
 import itertools
 import posixpath
@@ -187,17 +186,6 @@ def _for(self, dist):
         self.dist = dist
         return self
 
-    def __iter__(self):
-        """
-        Supply iter so one may construct dicts of EntryPoints by name.
-        """
-        msg = (
-            "Construction of dict of EntryPoints is deprecated in "
-            "favor of EntryPoints."
-        )
-        warnings.warn(msg, DeprecationWarning)
-        return iter((self.name, self))
-
     def __reduce__(self):
         return (
             self.__class__,

tests/test_api.py

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import re
 import textwrap
 import unittest
-import warnings
 import importlib
 
 from . import fixtures
@@ -116,23 +115,6 @@ def test_entry_points_missing_name(self):
     def test_entry_points_missing_group(self):
         assert entry_points(group='missing') == ()
 
-    def test_entry_points_dict_construction(self):
-        """
-        Prior versions of entry_points() returned simple lists and
-        allowed casting those lists into maps by name using ``dict()``.
-        Capture this now deprecated use-case.
-        """
-        with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as caught:
-            eps = dict(entry_points(group='entries'))
-
-        assert 'main' in eps
-        assert eps['main'] == entry_points(group='entries')['main']
-
-        # check warning
-        expected = next(iter(caught))
-        assert expected.category is DeprecationWarning
-        assert "Construction of dict of EntryPoints is deprecated" in str(expected)
-
     def test_metadata_for_this_package(self):
         md = metadata('egginfo-pkg')
         assert md['author'] == 'Steven Ma'

tests/test_main.py

@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
 import re
-import json
 import pickle
 import textwrap
 import unittest
-import warnings
 import importlib
 import importlib_metadata
 import pyfakefs.fake_filesystem_unittest as ffs
@@ -243,14 +241,6 @@ def test_hashable(self):
         """EntryPoints should be hashable"""
         hash(self.ep)
 
-    def test_json_dump(self):
-        """
-        json should not expect to be able to dump an EntryPoint
-        """
-        with self.assertRaises(Exception):
-            with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True):
-                json.dumps(self.ep)
-
     def test_module(self):
         assert self.ep.module == 'value'