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| author | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2012-07-02 03:00:09 (GMT) |
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| committer | Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com> | 2012-07-02 03:00:09 (GMT) |
| commit | 2aa8519f07bff9e7a04e62e2e4d11c87d18bb846 (patch) | |
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The StopIteration API applies to both tokenize() and generate_tokens()
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diff --git a/Doc/library/tokenize.rst b/Doc/library/tokenize.rst index 7075035..d037452 100644 --- a/Doc/library/tokenize.rst +++ b/Doc/library/tokenize.rst @@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ The primary entry point is a :term:`generator`: which must be a callable object which provides the same interface as the :meth:`readline` method of built-in file objects (see section :ref:`bltin-file-objects`). Each call to the function should return one line - of input as a string. + of input as a string. Alternately, *readline* may be a callable object that + signals completion by raising :exc:`StopIteration`. The generator produces 5-tuples with these members: the token type; the token string; a 2-tuple ``(srow, scol)`` of ints specifying the row and column |