From 6467134307cf01802c9f1c0384d8acbebecbd400 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Miro=20Hron=C4=8Dok?= Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 20:59:02 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] bpo-36543: What's new: Document how to replace xml.etree.cElementTree (GH-19188) --- Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst index a76445b3d8c..f58bcbcd3ce 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst @@ -671,7 +671,11 @@ Removed module have been removed. They were deprecated in Python 3.2. Use ``iter(x)`` or ``list(x)`` instead of ``x.getchildren()`` and ``x.iter()`` or ``list(x.iter())`` instead of ``x.getiterator()``. - The ``xml.etree.cElementTree`` module has been removed. + The ``xml.etree.cElementTree`` module has been removed, + use the :mod:`xml.etree.ElementTree` module instead. + Since Python 3.3 the ``xml.etree.cElementTree`` module has been deprecated, + the ``xml.etree.ElementTree`` module uses a fast implementation whenever + available. (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`36543`.) * The old :mod:`plistlib` API has been removed, it was deprecated since Python