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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright (c) 2017 The Bitcoin Core developers
+# Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
+# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
+"""Test deprecation of RPC calls."""
+from test_framework.test_framework import BitcoinTestFramework
+
+class DeprecatedRpcTest(BitcoinTestFramework):
+    def set_test_params(self):
+        self.num_nodes = 2
+        self.setup_clean_chain = True
+        self.extra_args = [[], ["-deprecatedrpc=validateaddress"]]
+
+    def run_test(self):
+        # This test should be used to verify correct behaviour of deprecated
+        # RPC methods with and without the -deprecatedrpc flags. For example:
+        #
+        # self.log.info("Make sure that -deprecatedrpc=createmultisig allows it to take addresses")
+        # assert_raises_rpc_error(-5, "Invalid public key", self.nodes[0].createmultisig, 1, [self.nodes[0].getnewaddress()])
+        # self.nodes[1].createmultisig(1, [self.nodes[1].getnewaddress()])
+
+        self.log.info("Test validateaddress deprecation")
+        SOME_ADDRESS = "mnvGjUy3NMj67yJ6gkK5o9e5RS33Z2Vqcu" # This is just some random address to pass as a parameter to validateaddress
+        dep_validate_address = self.nodes[0].validateaddress(SOME_ADDRESS)
+        assert "ismine" not in dep_validate_address
+        not_dep_val = self.nodes[1].validateaddress(SOME_ADDRESS)
+        assert "ismine" in not_dep_val
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    DeprecatedRpcTest().main()