Remove functions deprecated and warning since 2.0 (15 Mar 2013) and raising exceptions since 3.0 (1 Oct 2015)

PIL/ImageWin.py

@@ -182,14 +182,6 @@ class Dib(object):
         """
         return self.image.tobytes()
 
-    def fromstring(self, *args, **kw):
-        raise NotImplementedError("fromstring() has been removed. " +
-                                  "Please use frombytes() instead.")
-
-    def tostring(self, *args, **kw):
-        raise NotImplementedError("tostring() has been removed. " +
-                                  "Please use tobytes() instead.")
-
 
 class Window(object):
     """Create a Window with the given title size."""

Tests/test_imagewin.py

@@ -107,15 +107,6 @@ class TestImageWinDib(PillowTestCase):
         # Confirm they're the same
         self.assertEqual(dib1.tobytes(), dib2.tobytes())
 
-    def test_removed_methods(self):
-        # Arrange
-        im = hopper()
-        dib = ImageWin.Dib(im)
-
-        # Act/Assert
-        self.assertRaises(Exception, dib.tostring)
-        self.assertRaises(Exception, dib.fromstring)
-
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()

docs/releasenotes/4.2.0.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+4.2.0
+-----
+
+Removed Deprecated Items
+========================
+
+Several deprecated items have been removed.
+
+* The methods :py:meth:`PIL.ImageWin.Dib.fromstring` and :py:meth:`PIL.ImageWin.Dib.tostring` have been removed.

docs/releasenotes/index.rst

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Release Notes
 .. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
 
+  4.2.0
   4.1.1
   4.1.0
   4.0.0