I agree. Giving punctuation-based syntax like ... a meaning that isn't
obvious on reading the code makes for unreadable code. Whereas having
`raise Exception ('TODO')` accomplishes the same thing but also allows
English documentation. The ... here is open to interpretation, especially
as a new feature to an old established language like Python.On Thu, Apr 27, 2023, 10:07 AM Antoine Rozo <antoine.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > Raising an exception in that case would be a breaking change only for an > aesthetic preference. > Some codes use ellipsis as this in functions body and don't want it to > raise an error. > Also it's going to be confusing to understand why an exception is raised > in that place. > > Le jeu. 27 avr. 2023 à 15:50, haael <ha...@interia.pl> a écrit : > >> >> In examples in the web very often we see unfinished or partial code, >> where the ellipsis "..." is used in place of missing instructions. >> >> Idea: make ellipsis used in that context throw an exception, reminding >> the user that this code is work in progress. >> >> The exception could be called ToDoError, or WorkInProgressError, or >> simply EllipsisError, and could be derived from NotImplementedError. >> >> >> ``` >> >> def my_fun(): >> ... # todo >> >> my_fun() >> >> > WorkInProgressError: Implementation of `my_fun` is not finished. >> >> ``` >> >> This change could break some code, as for now ellipsis in the middle of >> code is silently ignored, but I don't think anybody seriously relies on >> that behavior. >> >> haael >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/QAU7LB46VGVZYESJUI6RKM2UB3WQR5N4/ >> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >> > > > -- > Antoine Rozo > _______________________________________________ > 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/6RX2H4WBASSUIBYB62GFPCTYZ6S3WBMW/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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