commit c7f490c8b19d5458d692f243279f7ad898f13ec4
author Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Sat Oct 08 21:50:45 2016 +0300
committer Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> Sat Oct 08 21:50:45 2016 +0300
tree 00696e8d0c669e8d4a413ecb04a8dae715aa59da
parent 639098c5911b88f03972e7fd44fe230a651cbc9b

Issue #28376: Creating instances of range_iterator by calling range_iterator
type now is deprecated.  Patch by Oren Milman.

Objects/rangeobject.c

diff --git a/Objects/rangeobject.c b/Objects/rangeobject.c
index eb18611..8449fc7 100644
--- a/Objects/rangeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/rangeobject.c
@@ -930,6 +930,13 @@
 {
     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;
     }