removed deprecated ScrapedItem (previously kept for backwards compatibility)

examples/googledir/googledir/settings.py

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ BOT_VERSION = '1.0'
 
 SPIDER_MODULES = ['googledir.spiders']
 NEWSPIDER_MODULE = 'googledir.spiders'
-DEFAULT_ITEM_CLASS = 'scrapy.item.ScrapedItem'
+DEFAULT_ITEM_CLASS = 'scrapy.item.Item'
 USER_AGENT = '%s/%s' % (BOT_NAME, BOT_VERSION)
 
 ITEM_PIPELINES = ['googledir.pipelines.FilterWordsPipeline']

scrapy/item.py

@@ -83,29 +83,3 @@ class Item(DictItem):
 
     __metaclass__ = ItemMeta
 
-
-class ScrapedItem(BaseItem):
-
-    def __init__(self, data=None):
-        """
-        A ScrapedItem can be initialised with a dictionary that will be
-        squirted directly into the object.
-        """
-        import warnings
-        warnings.warn("scrapy.item.ScrapedItem is deprecated, use scrapy.item.Item instead",
-            DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)
-        if isinstance(data, dict):
-            for attr, value in data.iteritems():
-                setattr(self, attr, value)
-        elif data is not None:
-            raise TypeError("Initialize with dict, not %s" % data.__class__.__name__)
-
-    def __repr__(self):
-        """
-        Generate the following format so that items can be deserialized
-        easily: ClassName({'attrib': value, ...})
-        """
-        reprdict = dict(items for items in self.__dict__.iteritems() \
-            if not items[0].startswith('_'))
-        return "%s(%s)" % (self.__class__.__name__, repr(reprdict))
-

scrapy/tests/test_item.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import unittest
 
-from scrapy.item import Item, Field, ScrapedItem
+from scrapy.item import Item, Field
 
 
 class ItemTest(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -127,23 +127,5 @@ class ItemTest(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(dict(i), {'name': u'John'})
 
 
-# NOTE: ScrapedItem is deprecated and will be removed in the next stable
-# release, and so will these tests.
-
-class ScrapedItemTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
-
-    def test_item(self):
-        
-        class MyItem(ScrapedItem):
-            pass
-
-        item = MyItem()
-        self.assertEqual(repr(item), 'MyItem({})')
-
-        item = ScrapedItem({'key': 'value'})
-        self.assertEqual(item.key, 'value')
-
-        self.assertRaises(TypeError, ScrapedItem, 10)
-
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     unittest.main()