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

[Alan Gauld]

On 11/08/17 14:57, Mats Wichmann wrote:

>> obscure features. Most Python programmers never use ellipses,
> 
> I guess what this means is when I post code snippets with some lines
> elided for greater readability of the point being made I should not use
> ellipses for that, as they're actually a syntactic element!   :)

Good point, because I often do that when replying to posts

def foo():...

I certainly don't mean the ellipses to be a syntactic element!


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