On 31/07/2011 07:47, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
It's really nice for stub functions:
def foo(x):
...
I guess pass is too pass-é?
;-)
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On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 23:47:36 -0700
Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> >
> > (Also, there must have been some reason to make "..." available everywhere
> > for Python 3.)
> >
>
> It's really nice for stub functions:
>
> def foo(x):
> ...
Using a docstring looks a lot less hackish (and it encourage
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Georg Brandl wrote:
> (Also, there must have been some reason to make "..." available everywhere
> for Python 3.)
Not really - it just let us ditch some special casing in the
compilation toolchain that *restricted* it to being used in subscripts
(i.e. we were look
On Jul 30, 2011, at 11:28 PM, Georg Brandl wrote:
>
> (Also, there must have been some reason to make "..." available everywhere
> for Python 3.)
>
It's really nice for stub functions:
def foo(x):
...
Raymond
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On 07/30/11 19:25, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> 2011/7/30 Georg Brandl :
>> 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
>>> date:Sat Jul 30 09:59:12 2
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.
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2011/7/30 Georg Brandl :
> 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
>> date: Sat Jul 30 09:59:12 2011 -0500
>> summary:
>> note Ellipsis syntax
>>
>
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
> date:Sat Jul 30 09:59:12 2011 -0500
> summary:
> note Ellipsis syntax
>
> files:
> Doc/library/stdtypes.r
