_fields Each concrete class has an attribute _fields which gives the names of all child nodes.

tokenize.detect_encoding(readline) The detect_encoding() function is used to detect the encoding that should be

ST.issuite() Same as issuite(st).

ast.get_docstring(node, clean=True) Return the docstring of the given node (which must be a FunctionDef

parser.suite(source) The suite() function parses the parameter source as if it were an input to compile(source

Function.lineno The line number of the def statement within the file named by file.

exception parser.ParserError Exception raised when a failure occurs within the parser module. This is generally produced for

parser.isexpr(st) When st represents an 'eval' form, this function returns true, otherwise it returns

get_namespace() Return the namespace bound to this name. If more than one namespace is bound,

has_children() Return True if the block has nested namespaces within it. These can be obtained with get_children()