python_doc_md/Intermediate/reference/index.md

The Python Language Reference {#reference-index}

This reference manual describes the syntax and "core semantics" of the language. It is terse, but attempts to be exact and complete. The semantics of non-essential built-in object types and of the built-in functions and modules are described in library-index{.interpreted-text role="ref"}. For an informal introduction to the language, see tutorial-index{.interpreted-text role="ref"}. For C or C++ programmers, two additional manuals exist: extending-index{.interpreted-text role="ref"} describes the high-level picture of how to write a Python extension module, and the c-api-index{.interpreted-text role="ref"} describes the interfaces available to C/C++ programmers in detail.

::: {.toctree maxdepth="2" numbered=""} introduction.rst lexical_analysis.rst datamodel.rst executionmodel.rst import.rst expressions.rst simple_stmts.rst compound_stmts.rst toplevel_components.rst grammar.rst :::