Claudio Grondi 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: >> >> >> >>>Any hints towards enlightenment what this from the geometry known term >>>'ellipsis' mean in Python? Googling shows, that I am not the first who >> >> >> Geometry: singular ellipse, plural ellipses -- sort of a flattened >>circle >> Punctuation: singular ellipsis -- a mark (typically three ..., >>typographically a single character "…") used to represent omitted text. >>For example, trimming the middle of a quote, such as: >> "Any hints towards ... term 'ellipsis' mean in Python?" >> >> In the case of python, you would have to examine slice notation and >>some history... >> >> Unless things have changed, nothing in the core Python language >>/uses/ the ellipsis in slicing. It was added, apparently, for use in >>numerical extension modules where the ellipsis represent >>missing/unspecified array indices in an extended slice. > > > 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. > Nope, that's just a linguistic snafu on my part. In English the term "ellipsis" describes "..." and means "Omission from a text of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically correct". So I described the three dots as an ellipsis without reference to its meaning in Python.
I hope this hasn't seriously inconvenienced you. However, it does seem like you are "looking for trouble" here -- i.e. looking to prove that Python is broken, when what's actually broken appears to be *your understanding* of Python. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
