Ben Finney wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why is statments expressed with ::= as the assigning operator?
like: http://docs.python.org/ref/grammar.txt
That page is part of the language reference. It shows, not Python
code, but a description of part of the Python grammar. See §1.2
<URL:http://www.python.org/doc/ref/notation.html>.
Of historic interest is Extended
Bachus-Naur Normal Form (EBNF):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Backus%E2%80%93Naur_form
Colin W.
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