.. _reference-index:

The Python Language Reference

This reference manual describes the syntax and core semantics of the

language. It is terse, but attempts to be exact and complete.

Elsewhere, the built-in object types and functions are described in

:ref:`builtins-index`. Standard library modules are described in :ref:`library-index`.

For an informal introduction to the

language, see :ref:`tutorial-index`. For C or C++ programmers, two additional

manuals exist: :ref:`extending-index` describes the high-level picture of how to

write a Python extension module, and the :ref:`c-api-index` describes the

interfaces available to C/C++ programmers in detail.

.. toctree::

:maxdepth: 2

:numbered:

introduction.rst

lexical_analysis.rst

datamodel.rst

executionmodel.rst

import.rst

expressions.rst

simple_stmts.rst

compound_stmts.rst

toplevel_components.rst

grammar.rst