karl <karl+pythonb...@la-grange.net> added the comment:

These methods are not used anywhere in the code. 

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/5c30145afb6053998e3518befff638d207047f00/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py#L71-L80

What was the purpose when they were created… hmm maybe blame would give clue. 
Ah they were added a long time ago

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/73678dac48e5858e40cba6d526970cba7e7c769c#diff-365c30899ded02b18a2d8f92de47af6ca213eefe7883064c8723598da600ea42R83-R88

but never used? or was it in the spirit to reserve the keyword for future use?
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Node/firstChild

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