a few compile() and ast doc improvements
diff --git a/Doc/library/ast.rst b/Doc/library/ast.rst
index 2192d11..e1a8ac0 100644
--- a/Doc/library/ast.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/ast.rst
@@ -21,13 +21,12 @@
Python release; this module helps to find out programmatically what the current
grammar looks like.
-An abstract syntax tree can be generated by passing :data:`_ast.PyCF_ONLY_AST`
-as a flag to the :func:`compile` builtin function, or using the :func:`parse`
+An abstract syntax tree can be generated by passing :data:`ast.PyCF_ONLY_AST` as
+a flag to the :func:`compile` builtin function, or using the :func:`parse`
helper provided in this module. The result will be a tree of objects whose
-classes all inherit from :class:`ast.AST`.
+classes all inherit from :class:`ast.AST`. An abstract syntax tree can be
+compiled into a Python code object using the built-in :func:`compile` function.
-A modified abstract syntax tree can be compiled into a Python code object using
-the built-in :func:`compile` function.
Node classes
------------
@@ -126,7 +125,7 @@
.. function:: parse(expr, filename='<unknown>', mode='exec')
Parse an expression into an AST node. Equivalent to ``compile(expr,
- filename, mode, PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
+ filename, mode, ast.PyCF_ONLY_AST)``.
.. function:: literal_eval(node_or_string)