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:mod:`tokenize` --- Tokenizer for Python source
===============================================
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The primary entry point is a :term:`generator`:
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.. function:: tokenize(readline)
The :func:`tokenize` generator requires one argument, *readline*, which
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token string; a 2-tuple ``(srow, scol)`` of ints specifying the row and
column where the token begins in the source; a 2-tuple ``(erow, ecol)`` of
ints specifying the row and column where the token ends in the source; and
- the line on which the token was found. The line passed is the *logical*
- line; continuation lines are included.
+ the line on which the token was found. The line passed (the last tuple item)
+ is the *logical* line; continuation lines are included.
- tokenize determines the source encoding of the file by looking for a utf-8
- bom or encoding cookie, according to :pep:`263`.
+ :func:`tokenize` determines the source encoding of the file by looking for a
+ UTF-8 BOM or encoding cookie, according to :pep:`263`.
All constants from the :mod:`token` module are also exported from