On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:30:18 +0100 Claudio Grondi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:25:38 +0100, Claudio Grondi > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in > > comp.lang.python: > As shown just above in this thread the code: > >>> a = [1] > >>> a.append(a) > >>> a > [1, [...]] > uses it, so it seems, that things have changed.
No it doesn't. It just uses "...". That would be like complaining if I wrote an object representation like: <MyObject is 2> that I was "using" the keyword "is" inconsistently. Wrong. I'm not using it at all -- I'm just using the string "is". Same above. Although the deeper meaning "an ellipsis shows an omission" is preserved. The ellipsis in the recursive definition substitutes for a literal representation which is conceptually infinite (although due to recursion limits is really finite). -- Terry Hancock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
