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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst index cb4c518..09047c4 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst @@ -1940,6 +1940,12 @@ Changes in the Python API :exc:`dbm.gnu.error` or :exc:`dbm.ndbm.error`) instead of :exc:`KeyError`. (Contributed by Xiang Zhang in :issue:`33106`.) +* Simplified AST for literals. All constants will be represented as + :class:`ast.Constant` instances. Instantiating old classes ``Num``, + ``Str``, ``Bytes``, ``NameConstant`` and ``Ellipsis`` will return + an instance of ``Constant``. + (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`32892`.) + * :func:`~os.path.expanduser` on Windows now prefers the :envvar:`USERPROFILE` environment variable and does not use :envvar:`HOME`, which is not normally set for regular user accounts. |