gobject-introspection fails to build with Python 3.9.0a2.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/builddir/build/BUILD/gobject-introspection-1.62.0/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu/tools/g-ir-scanner", line 100, in <module>
    sys.exit(scanner_main(sys.argv))
  File "/builddir/build/BUILD/gobject-introspection-1.62.0/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu/giscanner/scannermain.py", line 615, in scanner_main
    write_output(data, options)
  File "/builddir/build/BUILD/gobject-introspection-1.62.0/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu/giscanner/scannermain.py", line 469, in write_output
    passthrough_gir(main_f_name, temp_f)
  File "/builddir/build/BUILD/gobject-introspection-1.62.0/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu/giscanner/scannermain.py", line 260, in passthrough_gir
    parser.parse(path)
  File "/builddir/build/BUILD/gobject-introspection-1.62.0/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu/giscanner/girparser.py", line 60, in parse
    self.parse_tree(tree)
  File "/builddir/build/BUILD/gobject-introspection-1.62.0/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu/giscanner/girparser.py", line 69, in parse_tree
    self._parse_api(tree.getroot())
  File "/builddir/build/BUILD/gobject-introspection-1.62.0/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu/giscanner/girparser.py", line 106, in _parse_api
    for node in root.getchildren():
AttributeError: 'xml.etree.ElementTree.Element' object has no attribute 'getchildren'


Indeed, getchildren() was deprecated since Python 3.2: Use "for node in root" instead.



For the build logs, see:
https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/@python/python3.9/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/01139159-gobject-introspection/

For all our attempts to build gobject-introspection with Python 3.9, see:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/python/python3.9/package/gobject-introspection/

Testing and mass rebuild of packages is happening in copr. You can follow these instructions to test locally in mock if your package builds with Python 3.9:
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/python/python3.9/

Let us know here if you have any questions.

Python 3.9 will be included in Fedora 33, but the initial bootstrapping has already started.
A build failure this early in the bootstrap sequence blocks us very much.