commit 7d952ded6813c896ea3f4234bb8db5247dcb5484
author Gordon P. Hemsley <me@gphemsley.org> Tue Sep 10 11:22:01 2019 -0400
committer Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> Tue Sep 10 16:22:01 2019 +0100
tree 15472d3858af207919e4893b1335d99d08974616
parent a9b6033179b64b985394ad351501089a6a94fc9d

bpo-32424: Deprecate xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.copy() in favor of copy.copy() (GH-12995)

Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py

diff --git a/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py b/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
index e75200a..c8d898f 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
@@ -195,6 +195,13 @@
         original tree.
 
         """
+        warnings.warn(
+            "elem.copy() is deprecated. Use copy.copy(elem) instead.",
+            DeprecationWarning
+            )
+        return self.__copy__()
+
+    def __copy__(self):
         elem = self.makeelement(self.tag, self.attrib)
         elem.text = self.text
         elem.tail = self.tail