If you're proposing prevention of monkey patching Ellipsis, I think you'll have to go all-in on all builtins.
For example: >>> str = int >>> str <class 'int'> >>> str == int True Paul On Mon, 2021-05-31 at 11:37 -0300, André Roberge wrote: > In Python `...` is referred to as `Ellipsis` and cannot be assigned > to. > Yet, one can assign any value to the name `Ellipsis`. > > Consider the following: > > ``` > >>> ... > Ellipsis > >>> ... == Ellipsis > True > >>> Ellipsis > Ellipsis > >>> Ellipsis = 3 > >>> Ellipsis > 3 > >>> ... = 4 > File "<stdin>", line 1 > ... = 4 > ^ > SyntaxError: cannot assign to Ellipsis > >>> # But I just did assign a new value to the name Ellipsis above. > >>> Ellipsis > 3 > >>> ... > Ellipsis > >>> ... == Ellipsis > False > ``` > > For consistency, `Ellipsis` (the name) should **always** refer to the > same object that `...` refers to, so that both could not be assigned > a new value. > > André Roberge > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/KDQ3OHALLXVZJIGPC4BMPVS2XH3VFPJV/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
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