From 8309b8a942043dfe28c7a4091264e7298700d050 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ptmcg Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2022 18:02:20 -0600 Subject: Deprecate ParserElement.validate() (Issue #444) --- docs/HowToUsePyparsing.rst | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/HowToUsePyparsing.rst b/docs/HowToUsePyparsing.rst index 17f4370..ae8bca0 100644 --- a/docs/HowToUsePyparsing.rst +++ 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: -- cgit v1.2.1