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| author | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2008-11-08 17:05:00 (GMT) |
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| committer | Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> | 2008-11-08 17:05:00 (GMT) |
| commit | ec9199be08e832edb5f432fa56270ef65f97fb83 (patch) | |
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r67162 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-11-08 10:55:33 -0600 (Sat, 08 Nov 2008) | 1 line
a few compile() and ast doc improvements
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diff --git a/Doc/library/ast.rst b/Doc/library/ast.rst index 8590a48..88c0228 100644 --- a/Doc/library/ast.rst +++ b/Doc/library/ast.rst @@ -15,13 +15,12 @@ abstract syntax grammar. The abstract syntax itself might change with each Python release; this module helps to find out programmatically what the current grammar looks like. -An abstract syntax tree can be generated by passing :data:`_ast.PyCF_ONLY_AST` -as a flag to the :func:`compile` builtin function, or using the :func:`parse` +An abstract syntax tree can be generated by passing :data:`ast.PyCF_ONLY_AST` as +a flag to the :func:`compile` builtin function, or using the :func:`parse` helper provided in this module. The result will be a tree of objects whose -classes all inherit from :class:`ast.AST`. +classes all inherit from :class:`ast.AST`. An abstract syntax tree can be +compiled into a Python code object using the built-in :func:`compile` function. -A modified abstract syntax tree can be compiled into a Python code object using -the built-in :func:`compile` function. Node classes ------------ @@ -113,7 +112,7 @@ and classes for traversing abstract syntax trees: .. function:: parse(expr, filename='<unknown>', mode='exec') Parse an expression into an AST node. Equivalent to ``compile(expr, - filename, mode, PyCF_ONLY_AST)``. + filename, mode, ast.PyCF_ONLY_AST)``. .. function:: literal_eval(node_or_string) |