From 66f95ea6a65deff547cab0d312b8c8c8a4cf8beb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam Gross <colesbury@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 06:22:24 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] gh-114737: Revert change to ElementTree.iterparse "root"
 attribute (GH-114755)

Prior to gh-114269, the iterator returned by ElementTree.iterparse was
initialized with the root attribute as None. This restores the previous
behavior.
---
 Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py   | 2 ++
 Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py b/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py
index b9e7937b0bb..221545b315f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py
@@ -536,7 +536,9 @@ class ElementTreeTest(unittest.TestCase):
         iterparse = ET.iterparse
 
         context = iterparse(SIMPLE_XMLFILE)
+        self.assertIsNone(context.root)
         action, elem = next(context)
+        self.assertIsNone(context.root)
         self.assertEqual((action, elem.tag), ('end', 'element'))
         self.assertEqual([(action, elem.tag) for action, elem in context], [
                 ('end', 'element'),
diff --git a/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py b/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
index ae6575028be..bb7362d1634 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
@@ -1256,8 +1256,8 @@ def iterparse(source, events=None, parser=None):
                 source.close()
 
     it = IterParseIterator()
+    it.root = None
     wr = weakref.ref(it)
-    del IterParseIterator
     return it