From 7d952ded6813c896ea3f4234bb8db5247dcb5484 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Gordon P. Hemsley" <me@gphemsley.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2019 11:22:01 -0400
Subject: bpo-32424: Deprecate xml.etree.ElementTree.Element.copy() in favor of
 copy.copy() (GH-12995)

---
 Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

(limited to 'Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py')

diff --git a/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py b/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
index e75200a1b8..c8d898f328 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
@@ -195,6 +195,13 @@ class Element:
         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
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