On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 10:55:08PM +0100, MRAB wrote: > > >>> a = []; a.append(a); a > > [[...]] > > >>> [[...]] > > [[Ellipsis]] > > > Why is it 3 dots anyway? As we've already ascribed a meaning to 3 dots, > why not use 4 dots in this use?
Three dots for ommitted text is standard in English. Four dots is an ellipsis followed by a full stop. We could go against that convention (Python is not English, although it is based closely on many English conventions) but honestly I think that any change in this area is of such little benefit that it's not worth the potential disruption to documentation and doctests. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/7PLNSL6MNRDUWIIYX7O245TIYQADUVGU/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
