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The Python Language Reference
| Release: | 3.2 |
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| Date: | July 10, 2011 |
This reference manual describes the syntax and “core semantics” of the language. It is terse, but attempts to be exact and complete. The semantics of non-essential built-in object types and of the built-in functions and modules are described in The Python Standard Library. For an informal introduction to the language, see The Python Tutorial. For C or C++ programmers, two additional manuals exist: Extending and Embedding the Python Interpreter describes the high-level picture of how to write a Python extension module, and the Python/C API Reference Manual describes the interfaces available to C/C++ programmers in detail.
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Lexical analysis
- 3. Data model
- 4. Execution model
- 5. Expressions
- 5.1. Arithmetic conversions
- 5.2. Atoms
- 5.3. Primaries
- 5.4. The power operator
- 5.5. Unary arithmetic and bitwise operations
- 5.6. Binary arithmetic operations
- 5.7. Shifting operations
- 5.8. Binary bitwise operations
- 5.9. Comparisons
- 5.10. Boolean operations
- 5.11. Conditional expressions
- 5.12. Lambdas
- 5.13. Expression lists
- 5.14. Evaluation order
- 5.15. Summary
- 6. Simple statements
- 6.1. Expression statements
- 6.2. Assignment statements
- 6.3. The assert statement
- 6.4. The pass statement
- 6.5. The del statement
- 6.6. The return statement
- 6.7. The yield statement
- 6.8. The raise statement
- 6.9. The break statement
- 6.10. The continue statement
- 6.11. The import statement
- 6.12. The global statement
- 6.13. The nonlocal statement
- 7. Compound statements
- 8. Top-level components
- 9. Full Grammar specification