[Python-3000] Ellipsis
Christian Heimes
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Thu Jan 24 22:14:09 CET 2008
Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>> Some folks thought it would be cute to be able to
>> write incomplete code like this:
>>
>> class C:
>> def meth(self): ...
>> ...
>>
>> and have it be syntactically correct.
>
> Hmm, that *is* cute :-)
Indeed! It's one character shorter than "pass", it requires much less
finger movement and it even looks cool. I like it
However ... can lead to strange looking code, too:
>>> ....__class__.__name__
'ellipsis'
Christian
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