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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2019-09-01 08:18:35 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2019-09-01 08:18:35 (GMT)
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bpo-36543: Remove old-deprecated ElementTree features. (GH-12707)
Remove methods Element.getchildren(), Element.getiterator() and ElementTree.getiterator() and the xml.etree.cElementTree module.
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@@ -207,6 +207,12 @@ Removed
Use :meth:`~threading.Thread.is_alive()` instead.
(Contributed by Dong-hee Na in :issue:`37804`.)
+* Methods ``getchildren()`` and ``getiterator()`` in the
+ :mod:`~xml.etree.ElementTree` module have been removed. They were
+ deprecated in Python 3.2. Use functions :func:`list` and :func:`iter`
+ instead. The ``xml.etree.cElementTree`` module has been removed.
+ (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`36543`.)
+
Porting to Python 3.9
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