"Eric S. Johansson" <e...@harvee.org> writes: > When you are sitting on or in a name, you look to the left or look to > the right what would you see that would tell you that you have gone > past the end of that name. For example > > a = b + c > > if you are sitting on a, the boundaries are beginning of line and =, > if you are sitting on b, the boundaries are = and +, if you are > sitting on c, the boundaries are + and end of line. a call the region > between those boundaries the symbol region.
Check the lexical definitions. They essentially define, what a "symbol region" is. In essence, you have names, operators, literals whitespace and comments -- each with quite a simple definition. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
