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Python Language Reference
Front Matter
Contents
1. Introduction
1.1 Notation
2. Lexical analysis
2.1 Line structure
2.1.1 Logical lines
2.1.2 Physical lines
2.1.3 Comments
2.1.4 Encoding declarations
2.1.5 Explicit line joining
2.1.6 Implicit line joining
2.1.7 Blank lines
2.1.8 Indentation
2.1.9 Whitespace between tokens
2.2 Other tokens
2.3 Identifiers and keywords
2.3.1 Keywords
2.3.2 Reserved classes of identifiers
2.4 Literals
2.4.1 String literals
2.4.2 String literal concatenation
2.4.3 Numeric literals
2.4.4 Integer and long integer literals
2.4.5 Floating point literals
2.4.6 Imaginary literals
2.5 Operators
2.6 Delimiters
3. Data model
3.1 Objects, values and types
3.2 The standard type hierarchy
3.3 Special method names
3.3.1 Basic customization
3.3.2 Customizing attribute access
3.3.3 Customizing class creation
3.3.4 Emulating callable objects
3.3.5 Emulating container types
3.3.6 Additional methods for emulation of sequence types
3.3.7 Emulating numeric types
3.3.8 Coercion rules
4. Execution model
4.1 Naming and binding
4.1.1 Interaction with dynamic features
4.2 Exceptions
5. Expressions
5.1 Arithmetic conversions
5.2 Atoms
5.2.1 Identifiers (Names)
5.2.2 Literals
5.2.3 Parenthesized forms
5.2.4 List displays
5.2.5 Dictionary displays
5.2.6 String conversions
5.3 Primaries
5.3.1 Attribute references
5.3.2 Subscriptions
5.3.3 Slicings
5.3.4 Calls
5.4 The power operator
5.5 Unary arithmetic operations
5.6 Binary arithmetic operations
5.7 Shifting operations
5.8 Binary bit-wise operations
5.9 Comparisons
5.10 Boolean operations
5.11 Lambdas
5.12 Expression lists
5.13 Evaluation order
5.14 Summary
6. Simple statements
6.1 Expression statements
6.2 Assert statements
6.3 Assignment statements
6.3.1 Augmented assignment statements
6.4 The
pass
statement
6.5 The
del
statement
6.6 The
print
statement
6.7 The
return
statement
6.8 The
yield
statement
6.9 The
raise
statement
6.10 The
break
statement
6.11 The
continue
statement
6.12 The
import
statement
6.12.1 Future statements
6.13 The
global
statement
6.14 The
exec
statement
7. Compound statements
7.1 The
if
statement
7.2 The
while
statement
7.3 The
for
statement
7.4 The
try
statement
7.5 Function definitions
7.6 Class definitions
8. Top-level components
8.1 Complete Python programs
8.2 File input
8.3 Interactive input
8.4 Expression input
A. History and License
A.1 History of the software
A.2 Terms and conditions for accessing or otherwise using Python
Index
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Mon Oct 11 16:33:49 2004