| 1 | \chapter{Introduction\label{introduction}}
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| 3 | This reference manual describes the Python programming language.
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| 4 | It is not intended as a tutorial.
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| 6 | While I am trying to be as precise as possible, I chose to use English
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| 7 | rather than formal specifications for everything except syntax and
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| 8 | lexical analysis. This should make the document more understandable
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| 9 | to the average reader, but will leave room for ambiguities.
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| 10 | Consequently, if you were coming from Mars and tried to re-implement
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| 11 | Python from this document alone, you might have to guess things and in
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