From: Miro Hrončok <miro@hroncok.cz>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2020 19:59:02 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: bpo-36543: What's new: Document how to replace xml.etree.cElementTree (GH-19188)
X-Git-Tag: v3.9.0a6~255
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6467134307cf01802c9f1c0384d8acbebecbd400;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

bpo-36543: What's new: Document how to replace xml.etree.cElementTree (GH-19188)
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
index a76445b3d8cb..f58bcbcd3ce4 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