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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index c9d34dc..1683b29 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. The optional arguments *flags* and *dont_inherit* control which future statements (see :pep:`236`) affect the compilation of *source*. If neither is present (or both are zero) the code is compiled with those future - statements that are in effect in the code that is calling compile. If the + statements that are in effect in the code that is calling :func:`compile`. If the *flags* argument is given and *dont_inherit* is not (or is zero) then the future statements specified by the *flags* argument are used in addition to those that would be used anyway. If *dont_inherit* is a non-zero integer then @@ -233,6 +233,9 @@ available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. This function raises :exc:`SyntaxError` if the compiled source is invalid, and :exc:`TypeError` if the source contains null bytes. + If you want to parse Python code into its AST representation, see + :func:`ast.parse`. + .. note:: When compiling a string with multi-line code in ``'single'`` or |