[Python-ideas] Ellipsis Literal

[Raymond Hettinger]

[Raymond Hettinger]
>> 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


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Python 2.6a0 (trunk:59985:59987, Jan 15 2008, 12:54:09) [GCC 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1)] on linux2
>>> ...
  File "<stdin>", line 1
    ...
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

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