What does [...] mean?

[Jeff Epler]

This is a list in which one (or two) of the members is the list itself.

Here's a simple example of such a list:
>>> l = [1, 2, 3]
>>> l.insert(1, l)
>>> l
[1, [...], 2, 3]

Jeff
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