[Python-3000] The repr() of Ellipsis? (original) (raw)
Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Mar 6 19:01:09 CET 2007
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I've rejected it.
On 3/6/07, Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org> wrote:
On 3/6/07, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote: > Patch http://python.org/sf/1673355 changes Ellipsis' repr() to '...'. While > this is consistent, the submitter himself noted that it would probably cause > problems with doctest. > > Additionally, '...' is currently used to denote recursive structures in the > repr of lists and dicts, so this would have to be changed too. > > What do you think? I believe it is not worth changing Elipsis' repr. In fact, the problems with ... may indicate that we shouldn't allow '...' everywere after all... But I expect it isn't really a problem (It would be a syntax error when used like in doctests, and in the case of eval()'ing the repr of a dict/list it would otherwise raise a syntax error. The traditional meaning of elipsis is actually correct, there, although it's not how Python programmers are used to dealing with it.) -- Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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