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Author johnreese
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Date 2007-03-05.01:14:42
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(Continuing to talk to myself)

It's funny, I mentioned doctest already, thinking just that 'Ellipsis' would now print as '...' and the difference would cause incompatibilities; i.e. the same problem you get any time a __repr__ changes.  But there's a worse problem, which is that '...' looks almost exactly like sys.PS2, so a doctest like this will mistake the output for a continuation line and fail:

"""
>>> Ellipsis
...
"""
**********************************************************************
File "./doctesterr.py", line 6, in __main__
Failed example:
    Ellipsis
Expected nothing
Got:
    ...
**********************************************************************


In light of which grossness this trivial patch is probably not worth it.
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