[Python-checkins] bpo-37456: Slash ('/') is now part of syntax. (GH-14627) (GH-14628)

[Terry Jan Reedy]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/90631f9bc5f78ec6cdc2096d5c5ae26e41e5f150
commit: 90631f9bc5f78ec6cdc2096d5c5ae26e41e5f150
branch: 3.8
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>
date: 2019-07-06T18:25:47-04:00
summary:

bpo-37456: Slash ('/') is now part of syntax. (GH-14627) (GH-14628)

(cherry picked from commit 6f2a8c08573c71b78d2f6e2bfaf31641a0cd092b)

Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-07-06-17-51-36.bpo-37456.lgAQHn.rst
M Doc/faq/programming.rst

diff --git a/Doc/faq/programming.rst b/Doc/faq/programming.rst
index a00c6a053ef1..a36fa4aefe88 100644
--- a/Doc/faq/programming.rst
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@@ -800,10 +800,6 @@ an error::
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
    TypeError: pow() takes no keyword arguments
 
-Note that as of this writing this is only documentational and no valid syntax
-in Python, although there is :pep:`570`, which proposes a syntax for
-position-only parameters in Python.
-
 
 Numbers and strings
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-07-06-17-51-36.bpo-37456.lgAQHn.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-07-06-17-51-36.bpo-37456.lgAQHn.rst
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+Slash ('/') is now part of syntax.