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+.. _reference-index:
+
+#################################
+  The Python language reference
+#################################
+
+:Release: |version|
+:Date: |today|
+
+This reference manual describes the syntax and "core semantics" of the
+language. It is terse, but attempts to be exact and complete. The semantics of
+non-essential built-in object types and of the built-in functions and modules
+are described in :ref:`library-index`. For an informal introduction to the
+language, see :ref:`tutorial-index`. For C or C++ programmers, two additional
+manuals exist: :ref:`extending-index` describes the high-level picture of how to
+write a Python extension module, and the :ref:`c-api-index` describes the
+interfaces available to C/C++ programmers in detail.
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 2
+
+   introduction.rst
+   lexical_analysis.rst
+   datamodel.rst
+   executionmodel.rst
+   expressions.rst
+   simple_stmts.rst
+   compound_stmts.rst
+   toplevel_components.rst
+