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  The Python Language Reference

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:Release: |version|

:Date: |today|

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 :ref:`library-index`. For an informal introduction to the

language, see :ref:`tutorial-index`. For C or C++ programmers, two additional

manuals exist: :ref:`extending-index` describes the high-level picture of how to

write a Python extension module, and the :ref:`c-api-index` describes the

interfaces available to C/C++ programmers in detail.

.. toctree::

   :maxdepth: 2

   introduction.rst

   lexical_analysis.rst

   datamodel.rst

   executionmodel.rst

   expressions.rst

   simple_stmts.rst

   compound_stmts.rst

   toplevel_components.rst

   grammar.rst