Clarify portability and main program.
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1 \section{\module{symbol} ---
2 Constants representing internal nodes of the parse tree.}
3 \declaremodule{standard}{symbol}
5 \modulesynopsis{Constants representing internal nodes of the parse tree.}
8 This module provides constants which represent the numeric values of
9 internal nodes of the parse tree. Unlike most Python constants, these
10 use lower-case names. Refer to the file \file{Grammar/Grammar} in the
11 Python distribution for the defintions of the names in the context of
12 the language grammar. The specific numeric values which the names map
13 to may change between Python versions.
15 This module also provides one additional data object:
19 \begin{datadesc}{sym_name}
20 Dictionary mapping the numeric values of the constants defined in this
21 module back to name strings, allowing more human-readable
22 representation of parse trees to be generated.
23 \end{datadesc}
25 \begin{seealso}
26 \seemodule{parser}{second example uses this module}
27 \end{seealso}