[3.14] gh-134733: Fix documentation for the show_empty option of ast.dump() (GH-134925) (GH-134940)

miss-islington · serhiy-storchaka · web-flow · commit 41fe324d8be4 · 2025-05-30T19:30:13.000+03:00
Optional None values are always omitted. (cherry picked from commit 1a89991) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/ast.rst b/Doc/library/ast.rst
@@ -2445,8 +2445,9 @@ and classes for traversing abstract syntax trees:
    indents that many spaces per level.  If *indent* is a string (such as ``"\t"``),
    that string is used to indent each level.
 
-   If *show_empty* is ``False`` (the default), empty lists and fields that are ``None``
-   will be omitted from the output.
+   If *show_empty* is false (the default), optional empty lists will be
+   omitted from the output.
+   Optional ``None`` values are always omitted.
 
    .. versionchanged:: 3.9
       Added the *indent* option.
