From: Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:49:45 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: [3.13] gh-140196: Add constructor behavior changes in ast.rst for python 3.13 (GH... 
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[3.13] gh-140196: Add constructor behavior changes in ast.rst for python 3.13 (GH-140243) (GH-146354)

(cherry picked from commit fae5761a762a587b48430cbcd6e1886034ae8130)

Co-authored-by: Parman Mohammadalizadeh <prmma23@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/ast.rst b/Doc/library/ast.rst
index ec6a4a82d6fd..42728b1394a3 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ast.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ast.rst
@@ -134,6 +134,14 @@ Node classes
    Simple indices are represented by their value, extended slices are
    represented as tuples.
 
+.. versionchanged:: 3.13
+
+    AST node constructors were changed to provide sensible defaults for omitted
+    fields: optional fields now default to ``None``, list fields default to an
+    empty list, and fields of type :class:`!ast.expr_context` default to
+    :class:`Load() <ast.Load>`. Previously, omitted attributes would not exist on constructed
+    nodes (accessing them raised :exc:`AttributeError`).
+
 .. deprecated:: 3.8
 
    Old classes :class:`!ast.Num`, :class:`!ast.Str`, :class:`!ast.Bytes`,