1.. _reference-index: 2 3################################# 4 The Python Language Reference 5################################# 6 7This reference manual describes the syntax and "core semantics" of the 8language. It is terse, but attempts to be exact and complete. The semantics of 9non-essential built-in object types and of the built-in functions and modules 10are described in :ref:`library-index`. For an informal introduction to the 11language, see :ref:`tutorial-index`. For C or C++ programmers, two additional 12manuals exist: :ref:`extending-index` describes the high-level picture of how to 13write a Python extension module, and the :ref:`c-api-index` describes the 14interfaces available to C/C++ programmers in detail. 15 16.. toctree:: 17 :maxdepth: 2 18 :numbered: 19 20 introduction.rst 21 lexical_analysis.rst 22 datamodel.rst 23 executionmodel.rst 24 expressions.rst 25 simple_stmts.rst 26 compound_stmts.rst 27 toplevel_components.rst 28 grammar.rst 29