What does [...] mean?

[Charles Hixson]

I'm getting a list that I build which when printed is displaying, well,
e.g.:
d = << ['electronic', 'path', 'open', 'for', 'the', 'next', 'reader',
'.', [...], 'Do', 'not', 'remove', 'thi', '.', [...]] >>

Clearly I have a problem with the truncation of the final this, but what
does the internal [...] mean?
It's generated by doing:
print "d = <<", d, ">>"

If it matters, I'm using Python 2.3.4 on Linux.

[Erik Max Francis]

Charles Hixson wrote:

Clearly I have a problem with the truncation of the final this, but
what
does the internal [...] mean?
It's generated by doing:
print "d = <<", d, ">>"

If it matters, I'm using Python 2.3.4 on Linux.

It usually means that you have a self-referencing data structure, and so
repr is being kind enough not to recursively display it forever:

l = [1, 2]
l.append(l)
l

[1, 2, [...]]

You haven't given any indication of how d was created, so it's not
really possible to help further than that.

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