On Thu, 20 May 2021 at 20:06, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > > On 5/20/21 11:00 AM, Paul Moore wrote: > > > But it nevertheless feels like a bit of an abuse - the original point > > of ellipsis was for indexing, and in particular complex slices like > > a[1:20:2, ..., 3:5]. That usage is common in numpy, as I understand > > it, > > Interesting -- do you know what ... means in that context?
In general, it just means a.getitem((slice(1,20,2), Ellipsis, slice(3,5))), which has no specifically-defined meaning. In numpy, it means something along the lines of "broadcast along this axis" (I don't know the numpy terminology very well). Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/FFKSIHKW2CAQUMBWA6YUDKTGDKNSEQBB/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
