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Remove old-deprecated ElementTree features #73395

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serhiy-storchaka opened this issue Jan 8, 2017 · 9 comments
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Remove old-deprecated ElementTree features #73395

serhiy-storchaka opened this issue Jan 8, 2017 · 9 comments
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3.8 only security fixes extension-modules C modules in the Modules dir stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir topic-XML type-feature A feature request or enhancement

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BPO 29209
Nosy @scoder, @ned-deily, @serhiy-storchaka, @jdemeyer, @csabella, @GPHemsley
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  • bpo-29209: Remove old-deprecated features in ElementTree. #6769
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  • bpo-29204: Add code deprecations in ElementTree
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  • etree_remove_deprecated.patch
  • etree_remove_deprecated_getiterator.diff: Remove getchildren() and getiterator()
  • etree_remove_deprecated_cElementTree.diff: Remove xml.etree.cElementTree
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title = 'Remove old-deprecated ElementTree features'
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    Proposed patch removes old-deprecated ElementTree features.

    • Methods Element.getchildren(), Element.getiterator() and ElementTree.getiterator() deprecated in 2.7 and 3.2.
      Use list(elem) or iteration instead of getchildren(), methods iter() instead of getiterator().

    • The html argument of XMLParser deprecated in 3.4.
      The rest of arguments are keyword-only now (passing them as keywords was recommended in the documentatin).

    • The support of the doctype() method of XMLParser subclasses and its default implementation. Deprecated in 3.2. Define the doctype() method on a custom TreeBuilder target instead.

    • The xml.etree.cElementTree module deprecated in 3.3.

    Unfortunately some of these deprecations are in the documentation only or in Python implementatation, but not in C implementatation. Perhaps missed warnings should be added first (see bpo-29204). But if commit the patch from bpo-29204 in 3.6, perhaps deprecated features could be removed in 3.7.

    @serhiy-storchaka serhiy-storchaka added 3.7 (EOL) end of life extension-modules C modules in the Modules dir stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir topic-XML type-feature A feature request or enhancement labels Jan 8, 2017
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    scoder commented Jan 13, 2018

    Patch looks right to me.

    I'd personally be ok with applying it to 3.7, but I'll leave the decision to you. Most of the removed "features" are non-controversial, except:

    • "getchildren()" is probably still in use, also because it's more efficient than "list(elem)" in lxml (and has never been deprecated there), so code that supports both libraries might have preferred it

    • cElementTree is probably still imported by quite a bit of code

    So, this will have an impact on user code, despite any previous deprecation warnings. But it's easy to resolve in a backwards compatible way.

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    Serhiy,

    Did you want to revive this for 3.8?

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    getchildren() and getiterator() have deprecation notes in their docstrings in lxml.etree.

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    PR 6769 removes the html parameter and the doctype() method. getchildren() and getiterator() emit now a DeprecationWarning instead of PendingDeprecationWarning and will be removed in 3.9.

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    The following two patches will remove getchildren() and getiterator() (in 3.9) and xml.etree.cElementTree (in an unspecified future).

    @serhiy-storchaka serhiy-storchaka added 3.8 only security fixes and removed 3.7 (EOL) end of life labels May 12, 2018
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    New changeset 02ec92f by Serhiy Storchaka in branch 'master':
    bpo-29209: Remove old-deprecated features in ElementTree. (GH-6769)
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    jdemeyer commented Apr 5, 2019

    This should be closed.

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    The rest will be removed in bpo-36543.

    @ezio-melotti ezio-melotti transferred this issue from another repository Apr 10, 2022
    nueces added a commit to nueces/jenkins-job-wrecker that referenced this issue Oct 30, 2023
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    Replace removed getchildren method
    f757a46 
    The getchildren method was deprecated in python2.7 and is removed 3.10
See:
- python/cpython#73395
- python/cpython#80724
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