python bnf somewhere?

[Michael Hudson]

Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:

>     Corey> Hey everyone, sorry to bug people, but I remember seeing a nice
>     Corey> complete BNF for python somewhere in the documentation but I
>     Corey> can't for the life of me find it anymore.  Anyone have a link?
> 
> There are references all over the language reference (everywhere a BNF
> productions is shown) to
> 
>     http://www.python.org/doc/current/ref/grammar.txt
> 
> This is probably what you were thinking of.

Also note that this grammar isn't what's used to actually parse
Python, and is probably non-trivial to use for that purpose.

Cheers,
mwh

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