[Raymond Hettinger] >> I missed the conversation on this one. >> Was there a use case or a reason to add this?
[Robert Kern] > It was added for Numeric a long time ago. The ellipsis syntax has been around for a while. What is new is the Ellipsis literal in Py3.0. See snippets below. Raymond ------------------------------------ Python 2.6a0 (trunk:59985:59987, Jan 15 2008, 12:54:09) [GCC 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1)] on linux2 >>> ... File "<stdin>", line 1 ... ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax ------------------------------------ Python 3.0a2+ (py3k:60204M, Jan 22 2008, 14:50:12) [GCC 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1)] on linux2 >>> ... Ellipsis _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
