Hi,

In Python 3.5, the lineno for dict and set display ASTs is the line number of the first value, not the line number of the display character, as it was until 3.5. Here's an example:


  from ast import parse
  module = parse('''{
           '1':'2',
  }
  ''')
  dict_display = module.body[0].value
  print(dict_display.lineno)

I don't seem to find anything related to this in the documentation, but I presume this is a side effect of the new parser changes. It would nice to have this fixed or at least documented.

Using hg bisect, I found the revision a65f685ba8c0:
                                                                                       
changeset:   95886:a65f685ba8c0
user:        Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
date:        Tue May 05 20:16:41 2015 -0400
files:       Grammar/Grammar Include/Python-ast.h Include/dictobject.h Include/opcode.h Lib/importlib/_bootstrap_external.py Lib/opcode.py Lib/test/test_ast.py Lib/test/test_extcall.py Lib/test/test_grammar.py Lib/test/test_parser.py Lib/test/test_syntax.py Lib/test/test_unpack_ex.py Misc/ACKS Misc/NEWS Modules/parsermodule.c Objects/dictobject.c Parser/Python.asdl Python/Python-ast.c Python/ast.c Python/ceval.c Python/compile.c Python/graminit.c Python/importlib_external.h Python/opcode_targets.h Python/symtable.c Tools/parser/unparse.py
description:
PEP 448: additional unpacking generalizations (closes #2292)

Patch by Neil Girdhar.

A fix should include a new ast test, such as
      self.assertEqual(parse("{\n1:2}").body[0].value.lineno, 1)
I verified that the equivalent assert passes on 3.4.3, fails on 3.5.0.

New changeset 4f14afc959df by Benjamin Peterson in branch '3.5':
make opening brace of container literals and comprehensions correspond to the line number and col offset of the AST node (closes #25131)
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/4f14afc959df

New changeset 9d895c09c08a by Benjamin Peterson in branch 'default':
merge 3.5 (#25131)
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/9d895c09c08a