
On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 1:46 AM David Mertz <mertz@gnosis.cx> wrote:
On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 11:41 PM Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
Not every builtin needs a mollyguard to protect against misuse.
I'm not likely to rebind `Ellipsis` so that's not really my concern. Rather, I'm interested in the point André Roberge started the thread with.
Actually, the very first observation I made is that, if you try to assign a value to '...', the traceback includes the message: SyntaxError: cannot assign to Ellipsis which is clearly wrong. If it would state: SyntaxError: cannot assign to '...' the only inconsistency left would be a more minor one, that is of the repr of '...' stating that it is Ellipsis which can be incorrect if Ellipsis is bound to a different value. Sorry for opening what became a rabbit hole of a discussion. André
The repr of '...' should be more self-explanatory to beginners. It's basically co-opting the square brackets or parenthesis to mean something that doesn't really have anything to do with calling or indexing in order to have a repr—in tracebacks specifically, but elsewhere also—that reminds users of the connection between `...` and `Ellipsis`.
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