Issue #28376: Creating instances of range_iterator by calling range_iterator

type now is deprecated.  Patch by Oren Milman.

Lib/test/test_range.py

@@ -499,6 +499,9 @@ class RangeTest(unittest.TestCase):
         import _testcapi
         rangeiter_type = type(iter(range(0)))
 
+        self.assertWarns(DeprecationWarning, rangeiter_type, 1, 3, 1)
+
+        with test.support.check_warnings(('', DeprecationWarning)):
             # rangeiter_new doesn't take keyword arguments
             with self.assertRaises(TypeError):
                 rangeiter_type(a=1)

Misc/NEWS

@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ What's New in Python 3.6.0 beta 2
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #28376: Creating instances of range_iterator by calling range_iterator
+  type now is deprecated.  Patch by Oren Milman.
+
 - Issue #28376: The constructor of range_iterator now checks that step is not 0.
   Patch by Oren Milman.
 

Objects/rangeobject.c

@@ -930,6 +930,13 @@ rangeiter_new(PyTypeObject *type, PyObject *args, PyObject *kw)
 {
     long start, stop, step;
 
+    if (PyErr_WarnEx(PyExc_DeprecationWarning,
+                     "range_iterator(): creating instances of range_iterator "
+                     "by calling range_iterator type is deprecated",
+                     1)) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
     if (!_PyArg_NoKeywords("range_iterator()", kw)) {
         return NULL;
     }