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Author	yselivanov
Recipients	eric.smith, gvanrossum, martin.panter, yselivanov
Date	2016-11-18.21:41:07
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Message-id	<1479505268.01.0.0141047570329.issue28739@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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> IMO it would be simpler do disallow all f-strings as docstrings. How exactly you want to disallow them? Raise SyntaxError? If you don't raise anything, then the behaviour is just confusing -- the interpreter parses them, but __doc__ is None. I think this needs to be fixed. Eric, can we still fix this in 3.6? If not, then we need to update the PEP and the docs.

> IMO it would be simpler do disallow all f-strings as docstrings.

How exactly you want to disallow them?  Raise SyntaxError?  If you don't raise anything, then the behaviour is just confusing -- the interpreter parses them, but __doc__ is None.

I think this needs to be fixed.  Eric, can we still fix this in 3.6?  If not, then we need to update the PEP and the docs.

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