Python 1.5 Reference Manual

Chapter 1: - Introduction

1.1 - Notation

Chapter 2: - Lexical analysis

2.1 - Line structure

2.1.1 - Logical lines

2.1.2 - Physical lines

2.1.3 - Comments

2.1.4 - Explicit line joining

2.1.5 - Implicit line joining

2.1.6 - Blank lines

2.1.7 - Indentation

2.1.8 - 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

2.4.1.1 - String literal concatenation

2.4.2 - Numeric literals

2.4.2.1 - Integer and long integer literals

2.4.2.2 - Floating point literals

2.4.2.3 - Imaginary literals

2.5 - Operators

2.6 - Delimiters

Chapter 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 - Emulating callable objects

3.3.4 - Emulating sequence and mapping types

3.3.4.1 - Additional methods for emulation of sequence types

3.3.5 - Emulating numeric types

Chapter 4: - Execution model

4.1 - Code blocks, execution frames, and name spaces

4.2 - Exceptions

Chapter 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 - Expression lists

5.12 - Summary

Chapter 6: - Simple statements

6.1 - Expression statements

6.2 - Assert statements

6.3 - 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 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 exec statement

Chapter 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

Chapter 8: - Top-level components

8.1 - Complete Python programs

8.2 - File input

8.3 - Interactive input

8.4 - Expression input

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