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| author | Ammar Askar <ammar_askar@hotmail.com> | 2018-06-09 23:49:39 (GMT) |
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| committer | Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> | 2018-06-09 23:49:39 (GMT) |
| commit | 0aa17ee6a76df0946d42e7657a501f1862065a22 (patch) | |
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bpo-33766: Document that end of file or string is a newline (GH-7383)
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst index 1fe1a51..84e8c78 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/lexical_analysis.rst @@ -47,11 +47,12 @@ Physical lines -------------- A physical line is a sequence of characters terminated by an end-of-line -sequence. In source files, any of the standard platform line termination -sequences can be used - the Unix form using ASCII LF (linefeed), the Windows -form using the ASCII sequence CR LF (return followed by linefeed), or the old -Macintosh form using the ASCII CR (return) character. All of these forms can be -used equally, regardless of platform. +sequence. In source files and strings, any of the standard platform line +termination sequences can be used - the Unix form using ASCII LF (linefeed), +the Windows form using the ASCII sequence CR LF (return followed by linefeed), +or the old Macintosh form using the ASCII CR (return) character. All of these +forms can be used equally, regardless of platform. The end of input also serves +as an implicit terminator for the final physical line. When embedding Python, source code strings should be passed to Python APIs using the standard C conventions for newline characters (the ``\n`` character, |