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

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Sun Jul 31 08:28:24 CEST 2011

On 07/30/11 19:25, Benjamin Peterson wrote:

2011/7/30 Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net>:

On 07/30/11 17:00, benjamin.peterson wrote:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/402f94edf11b changeset: 71637:402f94edf11b branch: 2.7 user: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org> date: Sat Jul 30 09:59:12 2011 -0500 summary: note Ellipsis syntax

files: Doc/library/stdtypes.rst | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst --- a/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/stdtypes.rst @@ -2930,7 +2930,7 @@ supports no special operations. There is exactly one ellipsis object, named :const:Ellipsis (a built-in name). -It is written as Ellipsis. +It is written as Ellipsis or .... In 2.7, this is not true; ... only works in slices there. I know, but why would you use Ellipsis outside of slices?

I wouldn't, but that's not the point: the wording as it is now will lead readers to think that they can use the Ellipsis singleton as in Python 3, and they will complain and report bugs about this.

(Also, there must have been some reason to make "..." available everywhere for Python 3.)

Georg

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