newbie question: what does "<...>" or "<input>" signify?

[Roman Suzi]

Did you mean this:

>>> import sys
>>> sys.stdout
<open file '<stdout>', mode 'w' at 0x25d820>

?

This is _informal_ (but used consistently everywhere) way to represent
inrepresentable objects as string and files of which nothing more is
known, like in the above example.

You can also encounter this kind of output:

>>> l = [0]
>>> l[0] = l
>>> l
[[...]]

- because l is recursively constructed (never do such an ugly
objects, please!).



Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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