diff --git a/django/template/library.py b/django/template/library.py
index 04f4a7322d..8a6c98ee09 100644
--- a/django/template/library.py
+++ b/django/template/library.py
@@ -1,9 +1,7 @@
import functools
-import warnings
from importlib import import_module
from django.utils import six
-from django.utils.deprecation import RemovedInDjango20Warning
from django.utils.html import conditional_escape
from django.utils.inspect import getargspec
from django.utils.itercompat import is_iterable
@@ -136,14 +134,6 @@ class Library(object):
else:
raise ValueError("Invalid arguments provided to simple_tag")
- def assignment_tag(self, func=None, takes_context=None, name=None):
- warnings.warn(
- "assignment_tag() is deprecated. Use simple_tag() instead",
- RemovedInDjango20Warning,
- stacklevel=2,
- )
- return self.simple_tag(func, takes_context, name)
-
def inclusion_tag(self, filename, func=None, takes_context=None, name=None):
"""
Register a callable as an inclusion tag:
diff --git a/docs/howto/custom-template-tags.txt b/docs/howto/custom-template-tags.txt
index 53ea433137..448576784f 100644
--- a/docs/howto/custom-template-tags.txt
+++ b/docs/howto/custom-template-tags.txt
@@ -629,35 +629,6 @@ positional arguments. For example:
{% my_tag 123 "abcd" book.title warning=message|lower profile=user.profile %}
-Assignment tags
----------------
-
-.. method:: django.template.Library.assignment_tag()
-
-.. deprecated:: 1.9
-
- ``simple_tag`` can now store results in a template variable and should
- be used instead.
-
-To ease the creation of tags setting a variable in the context, Django provides
-a helper function, ``assignment_tag``. This function works the same way as
-:meth:`~django.template.Library.simple_tag` except that it stores the tag's
-result in a specified context variable instead of directly outputting it.
-
-Our earlier ``current_time`` function could thus be written like this::
-
- @register.assignment_tag
- def get_current_time(format_string):
- return datetime.datetime.now().strftime(format_string)
-
-You may then store the result in a template variable using the ``as`` argument
-followed by the variable name, and output it yourself where you see fit:
-
-.. code-block:: html+django
-
- {% get_current_time "%Y-%m-%d %I:%M %p" as the_time %}
- The time is {{ the_time }}.
-
Advanced custom template tags
-----------------------------
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.9.txt b/docs/releases/1.9.txt
index adcd6c949b..b7b489499d 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.9.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.9.txt
@@ -938,9 +938,8 @@ define built-in libraries via the ``'builtins'`` key of :setting:`OPTIONS
In general, template tags do not autoescape their contents, and this behavior is
:ref:`documented `. For tags like
:class:`~django.template.Library.inclusion_tag`, this is not a problem because
-the included template will perform autoescaping. For
-:class:`~django.template.Library.assignment_tag`, the output will be escaped
-when it is used as a variable in the template.
+the included template will perform autoescaping. For ``assignment_tag()``,
+the output will be escaped when it is used as a variable in the template.
For the intended use cases of :class:`~django.template.Library.simple_tag`,
however, it is very easy to end up with incorrect HTML and possibly an XSS
diff --git a/docs/releases/2.0.txt b/docs/releases/2.0.txt
index 97e59ca26f..751b46cccf 100644
--- a/docs/releases/2.0.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/2.0.txt
@@ -241,3 +241,5 @@ these features.
is removed.
* The ``django.forms.extras`` package is removed.
+
+* The ``assignment_tag`` helper is removed.
diff --git a/tests/template_tests/templatetags/custom.py b/tests/template_tests/templatetags/custom.py
index fffef022ac..3c3e4ce8ed 100644
--- a/tests/template_tests/templatetags/custom.py
+++ b/tests/template_tests/templatetags/custom.py
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
import operator
-import warnings
from django import template
from django.template.defaultfilters import stringfilter
@@ -168,19 +167,3 @@ def minustwo_overridden_name(value):
register.simple_tag(lambda x: x - 1, name='minusone')
-
-
-with warnings.catch_warnings():
- warnings.simplefilter('ignore')
-
- @register.assignment_tag
- def assignment_no_params():
- """Expected assignment_no_params __doc__"""
- return "assignment_no_params - Expected result"
- assignment_no_params.anything = "Expected assignment_no_params __dict__"
-
- @register.assignment_tag(takes_context=True)
- def assignment_tag_without_context_parameter(arg):
- """Expected assignment_tag_without_context_parameter __doc__"""
- return "Expected result"
- assignment_tag_without_context_parameter.anything = "Expected assignment_tag_without_context_parameter __dict__"
diff --git a/tests/template_tests/test_custom.py b/tests/template_tests/test_custom.py
index e6a876086e..b63882a9a8 100644
--- a/tests/template_tests/test_custom.py
+++ b/tests/template_tests/test_custom.py
@@ -306,29 +306,6 @@ class InclusionTagTests(TagTestCase):
self.assertEqual(template.render(Context({})).strip(), 'one\ntwo')
-class AssignmentTagTests(TagTestCase):
-
- def test_assignment_tags(self):
- c = Context({'value': 42})
-
- t = self.engine.from_string('{% load custom %}{% assignment_no_params as var %}The result is: {{ var }}')
- self.assertEqual(t.render(c), 'The result is: assignment_no_params - Expected result')
-
- def test_assignment_tag_registration(self):
- # The decorators preserve the decorated function's docstring, name,
- # and attributes.
- self.verify_tag(custom.assignment_no_params, 'assignment_no_params')
-
- def test_assignment_tag_missing_context(self):
- # The 'context' parameter must be present when takes_context is True
- msg = (
- "'assignment_tag_without_context_parameter' is decorated with "
- "takes_context=True so it must have a first argument of 'context'"
- )
- with self.assertRaisesMessage(TemplateSyntaxError, msg):
- self.engine.from_string('{% load custom %}{% assignment_tag_without_context_parameter 123 as var %}')
-
-
class TemplateTagLoadingTests(SimpleTestCase):
@classmethod