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authorKa-Ping Yee <ping@zesty.ca>2001-03-23 05:22:12 (GMT)
committerKa-Ping Yee <ping@zesty.ca>2001-03-23 05:22:12 (GMT)
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Explain the difference between NL and NEWLINE.
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@@ -43,5 +43,8 @@ passed to the \var{tokeneater} function by \function{tokenize()}:
Token value used to indicate a comment.
\end{datadesc}
\begin{datadesc}{NL}
- Token value used to indicate a newline.
+ Token value used to indicate a non-terminating newline. The NEWLINE
+ token indicates the end of a logical line of Python code; NL tokens
+ are generated when a logical line of code is continued over multiple
+ physical lines.
\end{datadesc}