From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 30 May 2025 04:19:04 +0000 (+0200) Subject: [3.13] ast docs: Fix description of ast.Constant (GH-134741) (#134912) X-Git-Tag: v3.13.4~20 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f4b8cd5510c72ca78c3f2f02a1e12f7827377ed0;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git [3.13] ast docs: Fix description of ast.Constant (GH-134741) (#134912) Contrary to the current docs, ast.Constant will never hold containers such as frozenset or tuple; the Python parser only emits it for simple literals. For precision, add the exact list of types that may be contained in an ast.Constant. (cherry picked from commit 381020d41fb1f8b33421f01c609ba0d0edb99764) Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra --- diff --git a/Doc/library/ast.rst b/Doc/library/ast.rst index 55389f534788..eb5bcd00122d 100644 --- a/Doc/library/ast.rst +++ b/Doc/library/ast.rst @@ -263,9 +263,9 @@ Literals .. class:: Constant(value) A constant value. The ``value`` attribute of the ``Constant`` literal contains the - Python object it represents. The values represented can be simple types - such as a number, string or ``None``, but also immutable container types - (tuples and frozensets) if all of their elements are constant. + Python object it represents. The values represented can be instances of :class:`str`, + :class:`bytes`, :class:`int`, :class:`float`, :class:`complex`, and :class:`bool`, + and the constants :data:`None` and :data:`Ellipsis`. .. doctest::