[Python-Dev] cpython (2.7): note Ellipsis syntax (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sun Jul 31 01:44:30 CEST 2011


Benjamin Peterson wrote:

why would you use Ellipsis outside of slices?

I could imagine someone wanting to use it as part of a function API. For example,

print(a, b, c, ...)

would have been a nice way to tell print() not to put a newline on the end.

-- Greg



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