On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Georg Brandl
(Also, there must have been some reason to make "..." available everywhere for Python 3.)
Not really - it just let us ditch some special casing in the compilation toolchain that *restricted* it to being used in subscripts (i.e. we were looking at the question from the "is there a good rationale for keeping this arbitrary restriction?" angle). Functionality wise, you could already write 'Ellipsis' everywhere you would otherwise have written '...' and you still have to write ':' as 'slice(None)' outside the context of a subscript operation. Although, as Raymond notes, it can make a nice substitute for 'pass' as a placeholder statement, and can also be used as a placeholder expression. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia