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authorMariatta <Mariatta@users.noreply.github.com>2017-09-13 03:43:04 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-09-13 03:43:04 (GMT)
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[3.6] bpo-31394: Clarify documentation about token type attribute (GH-3469) (GH-3525)
Make it clear that Ellipsis tokens also have type attribute set to token.OP.. (cherry picked from commit 5f8fbf917ebf2398aa75a1f271617e2e50ab7c88)
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@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ implemented in Python. The scanner in this module returns comments as tokens
as well, making it useful for implementing "pretty-printers," including
colorizers for on-screen displays.
-To simplify token stream handling, all :ref:`operators` and :ref:`delimiters`
-tokens are returned using the generic :data:`token.OP` token type. The exact
+To simplify token stream handling, all :ref:`operator <operators>` and
+:ref:`delimiter <delimiters>` tokens and :data:`Ellipsis` are returned using
+the generic :data:`~token.OP` token type. The exact
type can be determined by checking the ``exact_type`` property on the
:term:`named tuple` returned from :func:`tokenize.tokenize`.