I was wondering if you could do something like this:

_deprecated_objects = {
    "group": lambda *choices: '(' + '|'.join(choices) + ')',
    "any": lambda *choices: group(*choices) + '*',
    "maybe": lambda *choices: group(*choices) + '?',
    "Whitespace": r'[ \f\t]*',
    # etc.
}

And then at the end of the file have:

def __getattr__(name):
    if name in _deprecated_objects:
        import warnings
        warnings._deprecated(
            f"tokenize.{name}",
            message=(
                "{name} is untested, undocumented, and deprecated. "
                "It will be removed in Python {remove}."
            ),
            remove=(3, 14)
        )
        obj = globals()[name] = _deprecated_objects[name]
        return obj
    raise AttributeError(f"module 'tokenize' has no attribute '{name}'")

But I will defer to you and @pablogsal as to whether that's a good idea or not.

Looks like this does fix the immediate issue, though -- IDLE is once again able to open .py files 🎉

But I will defer to you and @pablogsal as to whether that's a good idea or not.

For the time being, let's just scope this PR to restoring the constants and let's keep the discussion open in the main issue. Also, let's wait until @Yhg1s mentions what he would prefer. Among other things I can imagine an outcome when we promote these to public interface.

For the time being, let's just scope this PR to restoring the constants and let's keep the discussion open in the main issue. Also, let's wait until @Yhg1s mentions what he would prefer. Among other things I can imagine an outcome when we promote these to public interface.

SGTM.