gh-149267: Document ast.Constant.kind attribute#149268
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The kind attribute of ast.Constant was not mentioned in the documentation. It is set to 'u' for u-prefixed string literals and None for all other constants.
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| and the constants :data:`None` and :data:`Ellipsis`. | ||
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| The ``kind`` attribute is an optional string. For string literals with a | ||
| ``u`` prefix (e.g. ``u'hello'``), ``kind`` is set to ``'u'``. For all other |
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| ``u`` prefix (e.g. ``u'hello'``), ``kind`` is set to ``'u'``. For all other | |
| ``u`` prefix, ``kind`` is set to ``'u'``. For all other |
Per the style guide, please don't use latin abbreviations. Furthermore, I don't think the example is necessary here.
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Thanks @anujbharambe for the PR, and @JelleZijlstra for merging it 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.13, 3.14. |
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GH-149293 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.14 branch. |
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GH-149294 is a backport of this pull request to the 3.13 branch. |
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…149294) gh-149267: Document ast.Constant.kind attribute (GH-149268) The kind attribute of ast.Constant was not mentioned in the documentation. It is set to 'u' for u-prefixed string literals and None for all other constants. --------- (cherry picked from commit 3a1df78) Co-authored-by: Anuj Nitin Bharambe <119653366+anujbharambe@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Anuj Bharambe <anujnitinb@gmail.com>
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kindto theConstantclass signature inDoc/library/ast.rstkindis'u'foru-prefixed string literals andNonefor all other constantskind='u'outputFixes #149267
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