[Tutor] What exactly does the three dots do? Why such as thing?

C W tmrsg11 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 9 12:06:37 EDT 2017


Dear Python experts,

What exactly does the three dots do?
> aList = ...
> type(pList)
ellipsis

It's an ellipsis, a spot holder to later. But what data type is it: vector,
matrix?

In every other language, you initialize a variable you want to use. What's
the point of ellipsis?

Thanks!


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