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2.6 Delimiters
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The following tokens serve as delimiters in the grammar:
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(       )       [       ]       {       }
,       :       .       `       =       ;
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The period can also occur in floating-point and imaginary literals.  A
sequence of three periods has a special meaning as ellipses in slices.

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The following printing ASCII characters have special meaning as part
of other tokens or are otherwise significant to the lexical analyzer:

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'       "       #       \
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The following printing ASCII characters are not used in Python.  Their
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@       $       ?
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