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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients eric.smith, mark.dickinson, mel
Date 2014-07-14.12:02:44
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> Mark, can you explain why the first example is valid syntax, but the second one is not:

Looks like Eric beat me to it!  As he explained, it's the "maximal munch" rule at work: the tokenizer matches as much as it can for each token.

You see similar effects with integer or float literals followed by a keyword starting with 'e' (or 'j', but I don't think we have any of those).

>>> 3if 1else 2
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    3if 1else 2
         ^
SyntaxError: invalid token
>>> 3if 1 else 2
3
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