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| author | Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> | 2020-02-17 09:03:00 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-02-17 09:03:00 (GMT) |
| commit | 85a2eef473a2c9ed3ab9c6ee339891fe99adbbc9 (patch) | |
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bpo-32892: Update the documentation for handling constants in AST. (GH-18514)
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diff --git a/Doc/library/ast.rst b/Doc/library/ast.rst index 2cee873..bfd571d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/ast.rst +++ b/Doc/library/ast.rst @@ -101,12 +101,16 @@ Node classes node = ast.UnaryOp(ast.USub(), ast.Constant(5, lineno=0, col_offset=0), lineno=0, col_offset=0) +.. versionchanged:: 3.8 + + Class :class:`ast.Constant` is now used for all constants. + .. deprecated:: 3.8 - Class :class:`ast.Constant` is now used for all constants. Old classes - :class:`ast.Num`, :class:`ast.Str`, :class:`ast.Bytes`, + Old classes :class:`ast.Num`, :class:`ast.Str`, :class:`ast.Bytes`, :class:`ast.NameConstant` and :class:`ast.Ellipsis` are still available, - but they will be removed in future Python releases. + but they will be removed in future Python releases. In the meanwhile, + instantiating them will return an instance of a different class. .. _abstract-grammar: |