From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 00:47:41 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: document TokenError and unclosed expression behavior (closes #12063)
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document TokenError and unclosed expression behavior (closes #12063)

Patch by Amandine Lee.
---

diff --git a/Doc/library/tokenize.rst b/Doc/library/tokenize.rst
index 0fc0d7ef1b..3f25a2cbc0 100644
--- a/Doc/library/tokenize.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/tokenize.rst
@@ -98,6 +98,24 @@ back the modified script.
 
    .. versionadded:: 2.5
 
+.. exception:: TokenError
+
+   Raised when either a docstring or expression that may be split over several
+   lines is not completed anywhere in the file, for example::
+
+      """Beginning of
+      docstring
+
+   or::
+
+      [1,
+       2,
+       3
+
+Note that unclosed single-quoted strings do not cause an error to be
+raised. They are tokenized as ``ERRORTOKEN``, followed by the tokenization of
+their contents.
+
 Example of a script re-writer that transforms float literals into Decimal
 objects::
 
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index f6449ba873..d16f1cd165 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -750,6 +750,7 @@ Julia Lawall
 Chris Lawrence
 Brian Leair
 Mathieu Leduc-Hamel
+Amandine Lee
 Christopher Lee
 Inyeol Lee
 James Lee