Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 17:25:38 +0100, Claudio Grondi > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python: > > >>Any hints towards enlightenment what this from the geometry known term >>'ellipsis' mean in Python? Googling shows, that I am not the first who > > > Geometry: singular ellipse, plural ellipses -- sort of a flattened > circle > Punctuation: singular ellipsis -- a mark (typically three ..., > typographically a single character "…") used to represent omitted text. > For example, trimming the middle of a quote, such as: > "Any hints towards ... term 'ellipsis' mean in Python?" > > In the case of python, you would have to examine slice notation and > some history... > > Unless things have changed, nothing in the core Python language > /uses/ the ellipsis in slicing. It was added, apparently, for use in > numerical extension modules where the ellipsis represent > missing/unspecified array indices in an extended slice.
As shown just above in this thread the code: >>> a = [1] >>> a.append(a) >>> a [1, [...]] uses it, so it seems, that things have changed. Claudio -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
