Expressions

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This chapter explains the meaning of the elements of expressions in Python.

Atoms #

Atoms are the most basic elements of expressions. The simplest atoms are identifiers or literals. Subexpressions enclosed in reverse quotes or in parentheses, brackets or braces are also categorized syntactically as atoms.

An atom can be one of:

• Identifiers
• Literals
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