On Jan 24, 2008 11:16 AM, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [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
Some folks thought it would be cute to be able to write incomplete code like this: class C: def meth(self): ... ... and have it be syntactically correct. PEP 3100 has the reference: * ``...`` to become a general expression element [16]_ [done] .. [16] python-3000 email http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2006-April/000996.html -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ 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
