Contents

• Contents
• Introduction
  • Notation
• Lexical analysis
  • Line structure
    • Comments
    • Explicit line joining
    • Implicit line joining
    • Blank lines
    • Indentation
  • Other tokens
  • Identifiers
    • Keywords
  • Literals
    • String literals
    • Numeric literals
  • Operators
  • Delimiters
• Data model
  • Objects, values and types
  • The standard type hierarchy
  • Special method names
    • Special methods for any type
    • Special methods for sequence and mapping types
    • Special methods for sequence types
    • Special methods for numeric types
• Execution model
  • Code blocks, execution frames, and name spaces
  • Exceptions
• Expressions and conditions
  • Arithmetic conversions
  • Atoms
    • Identifiers (Names)
    • Literals
    • Parenthesized forms
    • List displays
    • Dictionary displays
    • String conversions
  • Primaries
    • Attribute references
    • Subscriptions
    • Slicings
    • Calls
  • Unary arithmetic operations
  • Binary arithmetic operations
  • Shifting operations
  • Binary bit-wise operations
  • Comparisons
  • Boolean operations
  • Expression lists and condition lists
• Simple statements
  • Expression statements
  • Assignment statements
  • The pass statement
  • The del statement
  • The print statement
  • The return statement
  • The raise statement
  • The break statement
  • The continue statement
  • The import statement
  • The global statement
  • The access statement
  • The exec statement
• Compound statements
  • The if statement
  • The while statement
  • The for statement
  • The try statement
  • Function definitions
  • Class definitions
• Top-level components
  • Complete Python programs
  • File input
  • Interactive input
  • Expression input
• Index
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