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diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst index 941b342..3aba270 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst @@ -877,11 +877,14 @@ can appear before a future statement are: * blank lines, and * other future statements. +The only feature that requires using the future statement is +``annotations`` (see :pep:`563`). + All historical features enabled by the future statement are still recognized by Python 3. The list includes ``absolute_import``, ``division``, ``generators``, ``generator_stop``, ``unicode_literals``, -``print_function``, ``nested_scopes``, ``with_statement`` and ``annotations``. -They are all redundant because they are always enabled, and only kept for +``print_function``, ``nested_scopes`` and ``with_statement``. They are +all redundant because they are always enabled, and only kept for backwards compatibility. A future statement is recognized and treated specially at compile time: Changes |