[Python-Dev] Lukewarm about range literals

[Fredrik Lundh]

greg wrote:
> If we're going to use any sort of ellipsis syntax here, I
> think it would be highly preferable to use the ellipsis
> token we've already got. I can't see any justification for
> having two different ellipsis-like tokens in the language,
> when there would be no ambiguity in using one for both
> purposes.

footnote: "..." isn't really token:

>>> class Spam:
...     def __getitem__(self, index):
...         print index
...
>>> spam = Spam()
>>> spam[...]
Ellipsis
>>> spam[. . .]
Ellipsis
>>> spam[.
... .
... .
... ]
Ellipsis

(etc)

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