Scott David Daniels wrote:
kirby urner wrote:
... Hey, did you know Ellipsis is a new primitive object ... Actually, it has been around for quite a while.... [broken example]
Sorry, everybody, I started writing, tried the code, and editted the reply, rather than taking direct quotes. In doing so, I slipped up. I'm embarrassed enough that I'm going to re-post: >>> class Funny(object): def __getitem__(self, *args): return args >>> psuedo_array = Funny() >>> psuedo_array[1, ..., 10] ((1, Ellipsis, 10),) >>> Ellipsis Ellipsis Just to add some actual content: I believe this was first put in to help out array processing and heavy computation projects. The biggest survivors / descendants of those projects are Scipy & Numpy. By the way, Funny is actually a fairly useful class for experiments. --Scott David Daniels Scott.Daniels@Acm.Org