[issue39463] ast.Constant, bytes, and ast.unparse

2020-01-27 Thread Tal Ben-Nun
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[issue39463] ast.Constant, bytes, and ast.unparse

2020-01-27 Thread Tal Ben-Nun
New submission from Tal Ben-Nun : In Python 3.8, the "kind" field was introduced into the Constant AST class. This brings about a problem when unparsing the AST for various packages. First, it breaks backward compatibility for older code that creates ast.Num without specifying kind