Documentation

Looking at the online python docs at https://docs.python.org/3.11/library/warnings.html#warnings.warn. The function call is listed on the site like this:

warnings.warn(message, category=None, stacklevel=1, source=None, \*, skip_file_prefixes=None)

As far as I know (my apologies if I am very wrong), \* isn't a valid argument, and it should just be *.

Best guess is that since the actual code (here) has a linebreak in the arguments, that linebreak got formatted for the docs as a \*.

I saw this all come up in this stackoverflow question where other people thought it all through, i'm just posting the issue.

This seems to be new in 3.12

Linked PRs

• gh-114811: Update warnings.rst, changed '\*' to '*' #114819
• [3.12] gh-114811: Change '\*' to '*' in warnings.rst (GH-114819) #114837