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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index 30dca907..f5b53ea 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -212,15 +212,15 @@ available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. interactive statement (in the latter case, expression statements that evaluate to something else than ``None`` will be printed). - The optional arguments *flags* and *dont_inherit* (which are new in Python 2.2) - 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 *flags* argument is given and *dont_inherit* is not (or is zero) then the + 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 + *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 - the *flags* argument is it -- the future statements in effect around the call to - compile are ignored. + the *flags* argument is it -- the future statements in effect around the call + to compile are ignored. Future statements are specified by bits which can be bitwise ORed together to specify multiple statements. The bitfield required to specify a given feature @@ -238,7 +238,10 @@ available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. represented by ``'\r\n'``, use :meth:`str.replace` to change them into ``'\n'``. - .. versionadded:: 2.6 + .. versionchanged:: 2.3 + The *flags* and *dont_inherit* arguments. + + .. versionchanged:: 2.6 Support for compiling AST objects. |