Guido van Rossum wrote:
> But
>
> x = ...
>
> already has a meaning -- it assigns x the (fairly pointless) value
> Ellipsis
You can always say
x = Ellipsis
if you really want that.
I appreciate that ``...`` is pointless in the core so that I'm free to give it a purpose in my own libraries. I prefer to write ``Ellipsis`` as ``...``.