"Steven Bethard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > So I assume the language spec is basically the grammar and the > Language Reference docs[1]?
Yes. The de facto governing syntax specification is the grammar file in the source code from which the parser is generated. I once read that it is an ll(1) grammar; perhaps the file itself says. The grammar snippets in the Ref Manual are a humanized version, not constrained to be ll(1) but intended to equivalent. The text, of course, adds the semantic meat. Any discrepancy between that text and implementation behavior is a bug. Such usually get fixed fairly quickly after being reported. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
