Remove typing backport (#882)

Closes: #877

tox.ini → .flake8

@@ -1,14 +1,5 @@
-[tox]
-envlist = py27, py34
-
-[testenv]
-changedir = src
-commands = python -m unittest discover
-
-[testenv:py27]
-changedir = python2
-
 [flake8]
+
 # fake builtins for python2/*
 builtins = basestring, unicode
 max-line-length = 90
@@ -23,7 +14,5 @@ ignore =
 exclude =
   # tests have more relaxed formatting rules
   # and its own specific config in .flake8-tests
-  python2/test_typing.py,
-  src/test_typing.py,
   typing_extensions/src_py2/test_typing_extensions.py,
   typing_extensions/src_py3/test_typing_extensions.py,

.flake8-tests

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # This configuration is specific to test_*.py; you need to invoke it
 # by specifically naming this config, like this:
 #
-# $ flake8 --config=.flake8-tests src/test_typing.py python2/test_typing.py
+# $ flake8 --config=.flake8-tests [SOURCES]
 #
 # This will be possibly merged in the future.
 
@@ -28,8 +28,3 @@ ignore =
   DW12,
   # consistency with mypy
   W504
-exclude =
-  # This config is NOT for the main module.
-  setup.py,
-  python2/typing.py,
-  src/typing.py

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -25,9 +25,6 @@ jobs:
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip
           pip install -r test-requirements.txt
 
-      - name: Test typing
-        run: pytest python2
-
       - name: Test typing_extensions
         run: |
           pip install typing
@@ -97,4 +94,4 @@ jobs:
         run: flake8
 
       - name: Lint tests
-        run: flake8 --config=.flake8-tests src/test_typing.py python2/test_typing.py typing_extensions/src_py2/test_typing_extensions.py typing_extensions/src_py3/test_typing_extensions.py
+        run: flake8 --config=.flake8-tests typing_extensions/src_py2/test_typing_extensions.py typing_extensions/src_py3/test_typing_extensions.py

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -1,16 +1,6 @@
-This repository contains backports of the CPython `typing` module to earlier versions of
-Python. Therefore, code in this repo should follow CPython's style guidelines and
+Code in this repository should follow CPython's style guidelines and
 contributors need to sign the PSF Contributor Agreement.
 
-# typing
-
-The `typing` module provided by this repository is a backport for Python versions that
-do not have `typing` in the standard library: Python 2.7 and 3.4. These versions are no
-longer officially supported by CPython, so there is little remaining interest in keeping
-the backport up to date. We will accept contributions backporting new features to
-`typing`, but we are no longer actively requiring Python 2 support for all
-contributions.
-
 # typing_extensions
 
 The `typing_extensions` module provides a way to access new features from the standard
@@ -36,34 +26,15 @@ because async generators were added to the language in 3.6.
 
 # Versioning scheme
 
-`typing_extensions` and `typing` are usually released together using the same version
-numbers. The version number indicates the version of the standard library `typing`
+The version number of `typing_extensions` indicates the version of the standard library `typing`
 module that is reflected in the backport. For example, `typing_extensions` version
 3.10.0.0 includes features from the Python 3.10.0 standard library's `typing` module. A
 new release that doesn't include any new standard library features would be called
 3.10.0.1.
 
 # Workflow for PyPI releases
 
-- Do this for both `typing` and `typing_extensions`
-
-- Run tests under all supported versions. As of April 2021 this includes 2.7, 3.4, 3.5,
-  3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9.
-
-- On macOS, you can use `pyenv <https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv>`\_ to manage multiple
-  Python installations. Long story short:
-
-  - `xcode-select --install`
-  - `brew install pyenv`
-  - `echo 'eval "$(pyenv init -)"' >> ~/.bash_profile`
-  - Open a new shell
-  - `pyenv install 3.5.3`
-  - `pyenv install 3.4.6`
-  - (assuming you already have 2.7.13 and 3.6.1 from Homebrew)
-  - `pyenv global system 3.5.3 3.4.6`
-  - (or some more recent versions)
-
-- You can use `tox` to automate running tests.
+- Ensure that GitHub Actions reports no errors.
 
 - Update the version number in `setup.py`.
 

README.md

@@ -19,13 +19,7 @@ repository contain some historic discussions.
 Repository Content
 ------------------
 
-This GitHub repo is used for several things:
-
-- A backport of the `typing` module for older Python versions (2.7 and
-  3.4) is maintained in the [src directory](./src).
-  Note that the canonical source lives
-  [upstream](https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/typing.py)
-  in the CPython repo.
+This GitHub repository is used for several things:
 
 - The `typing_extensions` module lives in the
   [typing\_extensions](./typing_extensions) directory.
@@ -36,11 +30,12 @@ This GitHub repo is used for several things:
 - A [discussion forum](https://github.com/python/typing/discussions) for typing-related user
   help is hosted here.
 
+Historically, this repository hosted a backport of the
+[`typing` module](https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html) for older
+Python versions. The last released version, supporting Python 2.7 and 3.4,
+is [available at PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/typing/).
+
 Workflow
 --------
 
-* See [CONTRIBUTING.md](/CONTRIBUTING.md) for more.
-
-* The typing.py module and its unittests are edited in the `src`
-  subdirectory of this repo. The `python2` subdirectory contains the
-  Python 2 backport.
+See [CONTRIBUTING.md](/CONTRIBUTING.md) for more.