Issue #28376: Creating instances of range_iterator by calling range_iterator

type now is deprecated.  Patch by Oren Milman.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Objects/rangeobject.c b/Objects/rangeobject.c
index eb1861192d..8449fc7a24 100644
--- a/Objects/rangeobject.c
+++ b/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;
     }