fixup! bpo-46725: Document starred expressions in for statements

Author: pablogsal

Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst

@@ -199,6 +199,8 @@ the built-in function :func:`range` returns an iterator of integers suitable to
 emulate the effect of Pascal's ``for i := a to b do``; e.g., ``list(range(3))``
 returns the list ``[0, 1, 2]``.
 
+.. versionchanged:: 3.11
+   Starred elements are now allowed in the expression list.
 
 .. _try:
 .. _except:

Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst

@@ -160,7 +160,8 @@ traceback. (Contributed by Irit Katriel in :issue:`45607`.)
 Other Language Changes
 ======================
 
-* Starred expressions can be used in :ref:`for statements<for>`.
+* Starred expressions can be used in :ref:`for statements<for>` (See
+  :issue:`46725` for more details).
 
 * Asynchronous comprehensions are now allowed inside comprehensions in
   asynchronous functions. Outer comprehensions implicitly become

Lib/test/test_grammar.py

@@ -1394,6 +1394,12 @@ def __getitem__(self, i):
             result.append(x)
         self.assertEqual(result, [1, 2, 3])
 
+        result = []
+        a = b = c = [1,2,3]
+        for x in *a, *b, *c:
+            result.append(x)
+        self.assertEqual(result, 3 * a)
+
     def test_try(self):
         ### try_stmt: 'try' ':' suite (except_clause ':' suite)+ ['else' ':' suite]
         ###         | 'try' ':' suite 'finally' ':' suite