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Title: Reference TOC: expand 'Atoms' and 'Primaries'
Type: enhancement Stage: needs patch
Components: Documentation Versions: Python 3.7, Python 3.6, Python 2.7
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Assigned To: docs@python Nosy List: docs@python, terry.reedy
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Created on 2017-04-04 18:31 by terry.reedy, last changed 2022-04-11 14:58 by admin.

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msg291131 - (view) Author: Terry J. Reedy (terry.reedy) * (Python committer) Date: 2017-04-04 18:31
Today there is a fairly long python-list thread about the difficult of finding info on 'dict comprehensions' in the doc.  Point 1 is missing index entries.  I opened #29981 for this.  Point 2 is something I have also noticed: the obscurity of 'Atoms' and 'Primaries' as titles of sections in the Expressions chapter.  These are fairly esoteric Computer Science language theory terms.  Compare these to beginner-friendly 'Binary arithmetic operators' and 'Comparisons'.

My specific suggestions, subject to change:

Atoms, including identifiers, literals, displays, and comprehensions
Primaries: attributes, subscripts, slices, and calls
msg291133 - (view) Author: Terry J. Reedy (terry.reedy) * (Python committer) Date: 2017-04-04 18:45
'displays' is partly redundant with 'comprehensions'.  Since many think of other 'displays' as a type of literal, leave 'displays' out.  They are well indexed.  I think the most likely term people have trouble finding in the TOC is 'comprehension'.  It was not immediately obvious to most that should be 'atoms'.
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