Table of Contents

    1. Document Status
    2. Bimodal behaviour
    3. Compilation Model
       3.1. File Types
       3.2. Character set
    4. Literals
       4.1. Coherent radix selection
       4.2. Underscores in numbers
       4.3. Nestable C style comments
       4.4. Trailing spaces
       4.5. Indentation
       4.6. End of line processing
       4.7. String escapes
          4.7.1. ISO-10646 escapes
    5. Grammar
       5.1. Operator ** quirk
       5.2. No doc strings
       5.3. Extensions
          5.3.1. Possible extensions
    6. Native Objects
       6.1. Long Integers
       6.2. Rational numbers
       6.3. Widgets
       6.4. Fonts
       6.5. Colours
       6.6. Code objects
    7. Lookup
       7.1. Unqualified Name lookup: the enhanced namespace model
       7.2. Attribute lookup: the enhanced type model
    8. Memory Management
    9. Builtin functions
    10. The __getattr__ method
    11. Special Methods
    12. Standard Library
    13. Library differences