On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopolsky <at> gmail.com> writes: > > By this analogy, partial(f, ..., *args) is right_partial with '...' > > standing for any number of missing arguments. I you want to specify > > exactly one missing argument, you would want to write partial(f, :, > > *args), which is not a valid syntax even in Py3. > > Yes, of course, but... the meaning which numpy attributes to Ellipsis does > not > have to be the same in other libraries. Otherwise this meaning would have > been > embedded in the interpreter itself, while it hasn't. > The meaning which numpy attributes to Ellipsis is also the meaning that mathematical notation has attached to Ellipsis for a very long time. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis#In_mathematical_notation -- Daniel Stutzbach, Ph.D. President, Stutzbach Enterprises, LLC <http://stutzbachenterprises.com>
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