Is '[' a function or an operator or an language feature?

[Robert Kern]

On 7/16/10 12:01 PM, Peng Yu wrote:

> I then checked help('LISTLITERALS'), which gives some description that
> is available from the language reference. So '[' in "x=[1,2,3]" is
> considered as a language feature rather than a function or an
> operator?

Yes. It is part of the list literal syntax of the Python language.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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