I've rejected it. On 3/6/07, Thomas Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 3/6/07, Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Patch http://python.org/sf/1673355 changes Ellipsis' repr() to '...'. > While > > this is consistent, the submitter himself noted that it would probably > cause > > problems with doctest. > > > > Additionally, '...' is currently used to denote recursive structures in > the > > repr of lists and dicts, so this would have to be changed too. > > > > What do you think? > > I believe it is not worth changing Elipsis' repr. In fact, the problems with > ... may indicate that we shouldn't allow '...' everywere after all... But I > expect it isn't really a problem (It would be a syntax error when used like > in doctests, and in the case of eval()'ing the repr of a dict/list it would > otherwise raise a syntax error. The traditional meaning of elipsis is > actually correct, there, although it's not how Python programmers are used > to dealing with it.) > > -- > Thomas Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me > spread! > _______________________________________________ > Python-3000 mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/guido%40python.org > >
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