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diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref8.tex b/Doc/ref/ref8.tex deleted file mode 100644 index 3fe4cc5..0000000 --- a/Doc/ref/ref8.tex +++ /dev/null @@ -1,109 +0,0 @@ -\chapter{Top-level components\label{top-level}} - -The Python interpreter can get its input from a number of sources: -from a script passed to it as standard input or as program argument, -typed in interactively, from a module source file, etc. This chapter -gives the syntax used in these cases. -\index{interpreter} - - -\section{Complete Python programs\label{programs}} -\index{program} - -While a language specification need not prescribe how the language -interpreter is invoked, it is useful to have a notion of a complete -Python program. A complete Python program is executed in a minimally -initialized environment: all built-in and standard modules are -available, but none have been initialized, except for \module{sys} -(various system services), \module{__builtin__} (built-in functions, -exceptions and \code{None}) and \module{__main__}. The latter is used -to provide the local and global namespace for execution of the -complete program. -\refbimodindex{sys} -\refbimodindex{__main__} -\refbimodindex{__builtin__} - -The syntax for a complete Python program is that for file input, -described in the next section. - -The interpreter may also be invoked in interactive mode; in this case, -it does not read and execute a complete program but reads and executes -one statement (possibly compound) at a time. The initial environment -is identical to that of a complete program; each statement is executed -in the namespace of \module{__main__}. -\index{interactive mode} -\refbimodindex{__main__} - -Under \UNIX, a complete program can be passed to the interpreter in -three forms: with the \programopt{-c} \var{string} command line option, as a -file passed as the first command line argument, or as standard input. -If the file or standard input is a tty device, the interpreter enters -interactive mode; otherwise, it executes the file as a complete -program. -\index{UNIX} -\index{command line} -\index{standard input} - - -\section{File input\label{file-input}} - -All input read from non-interactive files has the same form: - -\begin{productionlist} - \production{file_input} - {(NEWLINE | \token{statement})*} -\end{productionlist} - -This syntax is used in the following situations: - -\begin{itemize} - -\item when parsing a complete Python program (from a file or from a string); - -\item when parsing a module; - -\item when parsing a string passed to the \function{exec()} function; - -\end{itemize} - - -\section{Interactive input\label{interactive}} - -Input in interactive mode is parsed using the following grammar: - -\begin{productionlist} - \production{interactive_input} - {[\token{stmt_list}] NEWLINE | \token{compound_stmt} NEWLINE} -\end{productionlist} - -Note that a (top-level) compound statement must be followed by a blank -line in interactive mode; this is needed to help the parser detect the -end of the input. - - -\section{Expression input\label{expression-input}} -\index{input} - -There are two forms of expression input. Both ignore leading -whitespace. -The string argument to \function{eval()} must have the following form: -\bifuncindex{eval} - -\begin{productionlist} - \production{eval_input} - {\token{expression_list} NEWLINE*} -\end{productionlist} - -The input line read by \function{input()} must have the following form: -\bifuncindex{input} - -\begin{productionlist} - \production{input_input} - {\token{expression_list} NEWLINE} -\end{productionlist} - -Note: to read `raw' input line without interpretation, you can use the -the \method{readline()} method of file objects, including \code{sys.stdin}. -\obindex{file} -\index{input!raw} -\withsubitem{(file method)}{\ttindex{readline()}} |