Hrvoje Nikšić added the comment: > Can you suggest a couple of sentences you would have like to have > seen, and where?
Thanks, I would suggest to add something like this to the documentation of ast.parse: """ ``parse`` raises ``SyntaxError`` if the compiled source is invalid, and ``ValueError`` if the source contains null bytes. Note that a successful parse does not guarantee correct syntax of ``source``. Further syntax errors can be detected, and ``SyntaxError`` raised, when the source is compiled to a code object using ``compile`` without the ``ast.PyCF_ONLY_AST`` flag, or executed with ``exec``. For example, a lone ``break`` statement can be parsed, but not converted into a code object or executed. """ I don't think the ``compile`` docs need to be changed, partly because they're already sizable, and partly because they don't document individual flags at all. (A reference to the ``ast`` module regarding the flags, like the one for AST objects in the first paragraph, might be a useful addition.) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue30637> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
