codeql/python/ql/lib/change-notes/2025-11-26-remove-top-level-points-to-import.md

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• All modules that depend on the points-to analysis have now been removed from the top level python.qll module. To access the points-to functionality, import the new LegacyPointsTo module. This also means that some predicates have been removed from various classes, for instance Function.getFunctionObject(). To access these predicates, import the LegacyPointsTo module and use the FunctionWithPointsTo class instead. Most cases follow this pattern, but there are a few exceptions:
  • The getLiteralObject method on ImmutableLiteral subclasses has been replaced with a predicate getLiteralObject(ImmutableLiteral l) in the LegacyPointsTo module.
  • The getMetrics method on Function, Class, and Module has been removed. To access metrics, import LegacyPointsTo and use the classes FunctionMetrics, etc. instead.