[Tutor] What exactly does the three dots do? Why such as thing?

Mats Wichmann mats at wichmann.us
Fri Aug 11 09:57:09 EDT 2017


On 08/10/2017 05:23 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote:
> On 10/08/17 14:39, C W wrote:
> 
>> I suppose it's just a place holder, though I don't know when I would use it
>> in my every day life.
> 
> Probably never.
> 
> Like most programming languages Python has a load of rarely used,
> obscure features. Most Python programmers never use ellipses,

I guess what this means is when I post code snippets with some lines
elided for greater readability of the point being made I should not use
ellipses for that, as they're actually a syntactic element!   :)



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