[Raymond Hettinger]

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I missed the conversation on this one. Was there a use case or a reason to add this?

[Robert Kern]

It was added for Numeric a long time ago.

The ellipsis syntax has been around for a while. What is new is the Ellipsis literal in Py3.0. See snippets below. Raymond ------------------------------------ Python 2.6a0 (trunk:59985:59987, Jan 15 2008, 12:54:09) [GCC 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1)] on linux2

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... File "<stdin>", line 1 ... ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

------------------------------------ Python 3.0a2+ (py3k:60204M, Jan 22 2008, 14:50:12) [GCC 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1)] on linux2

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