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@@ -131,6 +131,24 @@ function it uses to do this is available:
.. versionadded:: 3.2
+.. exception:: TokenError
+
+ Raised when either a docstring or expression that may be split over several
+ lines is not completed anywhere in the file, for example::
+
+ """Beginning of
+ docstring
+
+ or::
+
+ [1,
+ 2,
+ 3
+
+Note that unclosed single-quoted strings do not cause an error to be
+raised. They are tokenized as ``ERRORTOKEN``, followed by the tokenization of
+their contents.
+
.. _tokenize-cli: