[Python-3000] The repr() of Ellipsis?

[Guido van Rossum]

I've rejected it.

On 3/6/07, Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 3/6/07, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> > Patch http://python.org/sf/1673355 changes Ellipsis' repr() to '...'.
> While
> > this is consistent, the submitter himself noted that it would probably
> cause
> > problems with doctest.
> >
> > Additionally, '...' is currently used to denote recursive structures in
> the
> > repr of lists and dicts, so this would have to be changed too.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> I believe it is not worth changing Elipsis' repr. In fact, the problems with
> ... may indicate that we shouldn't allow '...' everywere after all... But I
> expect it isn't really a problem (It would be a syntax error when used like
> in doctests, and in the case of eval()'ing the repr of a dict/list it would
> otherwise raise a syntax error. The traditional meaning of elipsis is
> actually correct, there, although it's not how Python programmers are used
> to dealing with it.)
>
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