Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

No, -5 is not an atom. See The Python Language Reference [1]:

"""Note that numeric literals do not include a sign; a phrase like -1 is 
actually an expression composed of the unary operator ‘-‘ and the literal 1."""

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#numeric-literals

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