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authorNed Deily <nad@python.org>2018-06-11 02:41:09 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2018-06-11 02:41:09 (GMT)
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bpo-33745: Add What's New for empty function docstring change. (GH-7611)
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@@ -2431,3 +2431,8 @@ sufficient to both emit :exc:`BytesWarning` messages and have them converted
to exceptions. Instead, the flag must be set (to cause the warnings to be
emitted in the first place), and an explicit ``error::BytesWarning``
warnings filter added to convert them to exceptions.
+
+Due to a change in the way docstrings are handled by the compiler, the
+implicit ``return None`` in a function body consisting solely of a docstring
+is now marked as occurring on the same line as the docstring, not on the
+function's header line.