Ellipsis outside a slice

[Terry Reedy]

"Chris Perkins" <chrisperkins37 at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:45228044.0310081250.5b51e811 at posting.google.com...
> Is there a reason why the ... notation as a literal for Ellipsis is
> only allowed inside a slice?  Would allowing it elsewhere frighten
the
> parser?

It would complicate the parser for no purpose.  One can already access
the singleton ellipsis object by it name -- Ellipsis.  It was invented
and added for use in extended slices by Numerical Python and has no
grammatical use outside slices.

TJR