From: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 15:52:36 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: gh-134733: Fix documentation for the show_empty option of ast.dump() (GH-134925)
X-Git-Tag: v3.15.0a1~1444
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1a89991d2362867a9127e151376135615bc92a4c;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

gh-134733: Fix documentation for the show_empty option of ast.dump() (GH-134925)

Optional None values are always omitted.
---

diff --git a/Doc/library/ast.rst b/Doc/library/ast.rst
index cf22250cac60..ca0654acb336 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ast.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ast.rst
@@ -2445,8 +2445,9 @@ and classes for traversing abstract syntax trees:
    indents that many spaces per level.  If *indent* is a string (such as ``"\t"``),
    that string is used to indent each level.
 
-   If *show_empty* is ``False`` (the default), empty lists and fields that are ``None``
-   will be omitted from the output.
+   If *show_empty* is false (the default), optional empty lists will be
+   omitted from the output.
+   Optional ``None`` values are always omitted.
 
    .. versionchanged:: 3.9
       Added the *indent* option.