AttributeError: module 'ast' has no attribute 'Num' — ast.Num/Str/Bytes/NameConstant/Ellipsis removed in 3.14
AttributeError: module 'ast' has no attribute 'Num'
# before
if isinstance(node, (ast.Num, ast.Str)):
v = node.n if isinstance(node, ast.Num) else node.s
class V(ast.NodeVisitor):
def visit_Num(self, node): ...
# after (works on 3.8+)
if isinstance(node, ast.Constant) and isinstance(node.value, (int, float, complex, str)):
v = node.value
class V(ast.NodeVisitor):
def visit_Constant(self, node): ...
If the error is inside a dependency, upgrade it (e.g. helm/chart-testing users pinned a fixed yamale).
Symptom
On Python 3.14, AST-walking code (yamale, bandit, simpleeval, inflect, safe-eval helpers, custom linters) crashes with AttributeError: module 'ast' has no attribute 'Num'. A subtler variant: a NodeVisitor with visit_Num / visit_Str silently stops being called.
Cause
Python 3.14 removed the aliases ast.Bytes, ast.Ellipsis, ast.NameConstant, ast.Num, ast.Str (deprecated since 3.8) and the Constant.n / Constant.s properties. All literals have been ast.Constant since 3.8.
Verify
python3.14 -W error -c "import yourpkg" and run the AST code over a file containing numbers and strings; grep -rnE "ast\.(Num|Str|Bytes|NameConstant)|visit_(Num|Str)" . is empty.
Sources
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