On 10/05/2018 09:09, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
bartc <b...@freeuk.com>:
On 09/05/2018 06:44, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
But by the time 1.4 came around, Guido had settled on a clean separation
between statements and expressions as part of Python's design.
That separation has gradually weakened over the years,
Presumably it's non-existent now, as it seems you can type any
expression as a statement in its own right:
"stmt"
a + b*c
p == 0
When typing in code (in various languages), I have a habit of typing
"..." at places that need to be implemented. For example:
if count:
...
else:
do_something_smart()
break
the idea being that "..." will surely trigger a syntax error if I forget
to address it.
I was mildly amused when Python happily executed such code. "..." is a
valid expression and thus, a valid statement.
I wondered what it meant, so I typed in:
print (...)
and it displayed:
Ellipsis
which wasn't very enlightening.
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