[issue30637] Syntax error reported on compile(...), but not on compile(..., ast.PyCF_ONLY_AST)

[Hrvoje Nikšić]

Hrvoje Nikšić added the comment:

> Can you suggest a couple of sentences you would have like to have
> seen, and where?

Thanks, I would suggest to add something like this to the documentation of ast.parse:

"""
``parse`` raises ``SyntaxError`` if the compiled source is invalid, and ``ValueError`` if the source contains null bytes. Note that a successful parse does not guarantee correct syntax of ``source``. Further syntax errors can be detected, and ``SyntaxError`` raised, when the source is compiled to a code object using ``compile`` without the ``ast.PyCF_ONLY_AST`` flag, or executed with ``exec``. For example, a lone ``break`` statement can be parsed, but not converted into a code object or executed.
"""

I don't think the ``compile`` docs need to be changed, partly because they're already sizable, and partly because they don't document individual flags at all. (A reference to the ``ast`` module regarding the flags, like the one for AST objects in the first paragraph, might be a useful addition.)

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