From d4e89287b397c7382c12d3f3d9fd901fd8243b3c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mariatta Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 08:58:40 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] bpo-28739: Document that f-strings cannot be used as docstring (GH-592) --- Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst index da7017afff0..7f9c6648178 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst @@ -696,6 +696,17 @@ a temporary variable. >>> f"newline: {newline}" 'newline: 10' +Formatted string literals cannot be used as docstrings, even if they do not +include expressions. + +:: + + >>> def foo(): + ... f"Not a docstring" + ... + >>> foo.__doc__ is None + True + See also :pep:`498` for the proposal that added formatted string literals, and :meth:`str.format`, which uses a related format string mechanism.