"Alan G Isaac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Pardon the vocab question; | I'm not a computer science type. | According to the Reference Manual, | a class defintion has the structure:: | | classdef ::= "class" classname [inheritance] ":" suite | | What is the entire part before the suite called? | (Just pointing to a reference is fine & helpful, | as long as its not an entire course on BNF.)
I call it the header for the compound statement. Same with def f(pars): tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list