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bpo-31571: Remove duplicated info in Lexical Analysis documentation (GH-3691) (GH-3754)
- Remove the second mention about the `u` prefix - Remove the second mention about numeric literals do not include a sign (cherry picked from commit 4a2d00c)
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@@ -446,9 +446,6 @@ instance of the :class:`bytes` type instead of the :class:`str` type. They
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may only contain ASCII characters; bytes with a numeric value of 128 or greater
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must be expressed with escapes.
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As of Python 3.3 it is possible again to prefix string literals with a
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``u`` prefix to simplify maintenance of dual 2.x and 3.x codebases.
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Both string and bytes literals may optionally be prefixed with a letter ``'r'``
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or ``'R'``; such strings are called :dfn:`raw strings` and treat backslashes as
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literal characters. As a result, in string literals, ``'\U'`` and ``'\u'``
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3.14 10. .001 1e100 3.14e-10 0e0 3.14_15_93
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Note that numeric literals do not include a sign; a phrase like ``-1`` is
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actually an expression composed of the unary operator ``-`` and the literal
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``1``.
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.. versionchanged:: 3.6
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Underscores are now allowed for grouping purposes in literals.
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