
May 31, 2021
9:55 a.m.
If you're proposing prevention of monkey patching Ellipsis, I think you'll have to go all-in on all builtins. For example:
str = int str <class 'int'> str == int True
Paul On Mon, 2021-05-31 at 11:37 -0300, André Roberge wrote:
In Python `...` is referred to as `Ellipsis` and cannot be assigned to. Yet, one can assign any value to the name `Ellipsis`.
Consider the following:
```
... Ellipsis ... == Ellipsis True Ellipsis Ellipsis Ellipsis = 3 Ellipsis 3 ... = 4 File "<stdin>", line 1 ... = 4 ^ SyntaxError: cannot assign to Ellipsis # But I just did assign a new value to the name Ellipsis above. Ellipsis 3 ... Ellipsis ... == Ellipsis False
For consistency, `Ellipsis` (the name) should **always** refer to the same object that `...` refers to, so that both could not be assigned a new value. André Roberge _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-leave@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/KDQ3OHALLXVZJIGPC4BMPVS2XH3VFPJV/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/