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\chapter{Top-level components}
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}
\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 coplete 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 {\bf -c} {\it 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}
All input read from non-interactive files has the same form:
\begin{verbatim}
file_input: (NEWLINE | statement)*
\end{verbatim}
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 \keyword{exec} statement;
\end{itemize}
\section{Interactive input}
Input in interactive mode is parsed using the following grammar:
\begin{verbatim}
interactive_input: [stmt_list] NEWLINE | compound_stmt NEWLINE
\end{verbatim}
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}
\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{verbatim}
eval_input: expression_list NEWLINE*
\end{verbatim}
The input line read by \function{input()} must have the following form:
\bifuncindex{input}
\begin{verbatim}
input_input: expression_list NEWLINE
\end{verbatim}
Note: to read `raw' input line without interpretation, you can use the
built-in function \function{raw_input()} or the \method{readline()} method
of file objects.
\obindex{file}
\index{input!raw}
\index{raw input}
\bifuncindex{raw_input}
\withsubitem{(file method)}{\ttindex{readline()}}
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