[[...]]

[Jeff Pinyan]

[posted & mailed]

On Mar 17, Michal Bozon said:

>>>> a = []
>>>> a.append(a)
>>>> a
>[[...]]
>
># What does it mean?

It's Python's way of saying you have a circular data structure.

>>> foo = [ [1,2,3] ]
>>> foo
[[1, 2, 3]]
>>> foo[0][1] = foo[0]
>>> foo
[[1, [...], 3]]

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