Remove dead json_clean / jsonutil module#1503
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| # Copyright (c) IPython Development Team. | ||
| # Distributed under the terms of the Modified BSD License. | ||
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Summary
Some preliminary exploration trying to get more up to speed with the codebase.
json_clean()has been a no-op since jupyter_client >= 7 (released 2021). Since ipykernel now requiresjupyter_client>=8.8.0, this code can never execute.Changes
ipykernel/jsonutil.pyentirelyjson_clean()call sites inkernelbase.py(7 calls + import)tests/test_jsonutil.py(all tests were alreadyskipIf(jupyter_client >= 7))No behavioral change — every removed
json_clean()call was returning its input unchanged.