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| author | Meador Inge <meadori@gmail.com> | 2012-01-19 06:22:22 (GMT) |
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| committer | Meador Inge <meadori@gmail.com> | 2012-01-19 06:22:22 (GMT) |
| commit | 972cfb9169bdf7fa6c9758a5c49659429c84b5a8 (patch) | |
| tree | cc8ef7b23439501cf4504f93492e502dab7f6195 /Doc | |
| parent | 1b468af7be7a2f0af7730c64402a38cc11413f51 (diff) | |
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Issue #2134: Clarify token.OP handling rationale in tokenize documentation.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/tokenize.rst b/Doc/library/tokenize.rst index 577d7cc..70919ca 100644 --- a/Doc/library/tokenize.rst +++ b/Doc/library/tokenize.rst @@ -15,6 +15,12 @@ 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 +type can be determined by checking the token ``string`` field on the +:term:`named tuple` returned from :func:`tokenize.tokenize` for the character +sequence that identifies a specific operator token. + The primary entry point is a :term:`generator`: .. function:: tokenize(readline) |