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authorptmcg <ptmcg@austin.rr.com>2022-11-06 18:02:20 -0600
committerptmcg <ptmcg@austin.rr.com>2022-11-06 18:02:20 -0600
commit8309b8a942043dfe28c7a4091264e7298700d050 (patch)
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Deprecate ParserElement.validate() (Issue #444)
-rw-r--r--docs/HowToUsePyparsing.rst4
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diff --git a/docs/HowToUsePyparsing.rst b/docs/HowToUsePyparsing.rst
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+++ b/docs/HowToUsePyparsing.rst
@@ -463,7 +463,9 @@ methods for code to use are:
when trying to match this element
- ``validate()`` - function to verify that the defined grammar does not
- contain infinitely recursive constructs
+ contain infinitely recursive constructs (``validate()`` is deprecated, and
+ will be removed in a future pyparsing release. Pyparsing now supports
+ left-recursive parsers, which this function attempted to catch.)
.. _parse_with_tabs: