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diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst index 69bcd9d..513543b 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst @@ -142,8 +142,6 @@ Assignment of an object to a single target is recursively defined as follows. for the object previously bound to the name to reach zero, causing the object to be deallocated and its destructor (if it has one) to be called. - .. % nested - * If the target is a target list enclosed in parentheses or in square brackets: The object must be a sequence with the same number of items as there are targets in the target list, and its items are assigned, from left to right, to the @@ -295,16 +293,16 @@ The extended form, ``assert expression1, expression2``, is equivalent to :: single: __debug__ exception: AssertionError -These equivalences assume that ``__debug__`` and :exc:`AssertionError` refer to +These equivalences assume that :const:`__debug__` and :exc:`AssertionError` refer to the built-in variables with those names. In the current implementation, the -built-in variable ``__debug__`` is ``True`` under normal circumstances, +built-in variable :const:`__debug__` is ``True`` under normal circumstances, ``False`` when optimization is requested (command line option -O). The current code generator emits no code for an assert statement when optimization is requested at compile time. Note that it is unnecessary to include the source code for the expression that failed in the error message; it will be displayed as part of the stack trace. -Assignments to ``__debug__`` are illegal. The value for the built-in variable +Assignments to :const:`__debug__` are illegal. The value for the built-in variable is determined when the interpreter starts. @@ -634,6 +632,7 @@ cycle of the nearest enclosing loop. .. _import: +.. _from: The :keyword:`import` statement =============================== @@ -755,8 +754,6 @@ bothered to spell this out right now; see the URL http://www.python.org/doc/essays/packages.html for more details, also about how the module search works from inside a package.] -.. % - .. index:: builtin: __import__ The built-in function :func:`__import__` is provided to support applications |