On 29-Jan-09, at 3:21 PM, Daniel Stutzbach wrote:
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.
And yet, python isn't confined to mathematical notation. *, ** are
both overloaded for use in argument lists to no-one's peril, AFAICT.
-Mike
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