INADA Naoki <songofaca...@gmail.com> added the comment: > B. Revert the feature now for 3.7.0, retargeting for 3.8, and produce a > 3.7.0b5 on a somewhat shorter cycle to allow downstream users to adapt to the > removal.
Please note that it can't be reverted simply. The change was introduced to ease AST-layer optimization (`"abc" + "def"` is not docstring, but `"abcdef"` is docstring.) And we implemented some AST-layer optimization already. There are two ways to revert the change: B1. Just remove `.docstring` attribute and implement hack to distinguish string and docstring in some places. B2. Remove `.docstring` attribute, but introduce `DocString` statement. This was my patch (PR-5927) In case of B2, thirdparty libraries should follow the change anyway. In case of IPython, `DocString(s="spam")` may be replaced with `Expr(Str(s="spam"))` In case of B1, I hadn't tried it yet and I don't know how difficult it is. I'll try but I can't say estimated time for now. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue32911> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
