bpo-37268: Add deprecation notice and a DeprecationWarning for the parser module (GH-15017)

Deprecate the parser module and add a deprecation warning triggered on import and a warning block in the documentation.





https://bugs.python.org/issue37268



Automerge-Triggered-By: @pablogsal

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Modules/parsermodule.c b/Modules/parsermodule.c
index 079d00f..b2495fc 100644
--- a/Modules/parsermodule.c
+++ b/Modules/parsermodule.c
@@ -1158,6 +1158,12 @@ PyInit_parser(void)
 {
     PyObject *module, *copyreg;
 
+    if (PyErr_WarnEx(PyExc_DeprecationWarning,
+            "The parser module is deprecated and will be removed "
+            "in future versions of Python", 7) != 0) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
     if (PyType_Ready(&PyST_Type) < 0)
         return NULL;
     module = PyModule_Create(&parsermodule);