Terry,
Thanks for the reply.
Did you not find them in grammar.txt, which you referenced, or Grammar/Grammar is the source, which you did not.
I didn't find them in grammar.txt. I didn't find Grammar/Grammar because I was looking in an installed Python rather than the source (my mistake; I've found it now). I assumed that the two would the same.
Guido has said that the grammar in the ref manual, meant for human consumption, is equivalent to but not quite the same as the grammar used to generate the parser, which has to meet LL1 constraints.
Ok, thanks for the info. While I found a comment re: the ref manual being for human consumption[1], I didn't take this to mean that its grammar was actually not the same as the implementation grammar, only that it was set forth in English (hence, my assumption above).
Would there be any value, I wonder, in posting Grammar/Grammar with the rest of the docs, e.g., at doc/ref/grammar-parser.txt?
Thanks again for the sanity check!
chad
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[1] http://python.org/doc/ref/introduction.html
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