Carol Willing added the comment:
Matthias, Did you wish to mark this issue for additional Documentation and as a
behavior change request (warning of signature change until 3.6) in addition to
Devguide?
I've summarized below some info from researching Matthias' original message. I
see three questions to answer:
a) Should `ast` shim the old signature and raise a warning until 3.6?
b) What additional items should be added to Documentation or Porting Guide?
c) What items should be added to Devguide?
**Background**
Implementation of PEP 448 (Additional Unpacking Generalizations) changed the
ast.Call/_ast.Call signature by removing two arguments (args, kwargs).
Testing errors are seen in existing code that does not take into account the
signature change.['1'][1]
**Workaround**
Matthias' possible workaround for existing projects to check for version 3.5 or
higher and adapt to two less arguments.['2'][2]
**Devguide addition**
Thomas Kluyver's supplementary information about AST use.['3'][3] Perhaps
mention this in the AST section of the devguide. I recognize that typically the
devguide does not reference external docs but this seems like it would be
useful to future developers.
[1]:
https://bitbucket.org/pytest-dev/pytest/issue/744/pytest-assert-rewriting-broken-with-python#
[2]:
https://bitbucket.org/pytest-dev/pytest/pull-request/296/astcall-signature-changed-on-35/diff
[3]: https://greentreesnakes.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
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