[Python-3000] [ANN] Python 3 Symbol Glossary tjreedy at udel.edu
Sun Nov 2 02:52:43 CET 2008 Over the years, people have
complained about the difficulty of finding the meaning of
symbols used in Python syntax. So ... I wrote a Python 3 Symbol
Glossary There are .txt and .odt versions. The first is usable,
the second is nicer if you have an OpenDocFormat viewer or
editor such as OpenOffice. There is no .html because conversion
mangles the format by deleting tabs . From the Introduction: The
ascii character set includes non-printable control characters
(designated below with a '^' or '\' prefix), letters and digits,
and other printable symbols. A few of the control characters and
most of the symbols are used in Python code as operators,
delimiters, or other syntactic units. Some symbols are used
alone, some in multi-symbol units, and some in both. There are
separate entries for each syntactic unit and for each different
use of a unit. In total, there are nearly 100 entries for over
50 symbols and combinations.