"..." is used to confusingly indicate many different things in chapter 3

[lew18]

BPO	33460
Nosy	@gpshead, @miss-islington, @lew18
PRs	bpo-33460: remove ellipsis that look like continuation prompts #7851 [3.7] bpo-33460: remove ellipsis that look like continuation prompts (GH-7851) #9152

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title = '"..." is used to confusingly indicate many different things in chapter 3'
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[lew18]

https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/introduction.html
uses ... to mean 5 or 6 different things. Since ... is continuation prompt, some of these other uses on that page are confusing - at least they were to this newbie. The most confusing are where it is used to hide output in the error messages.

If someone has the patience to send me pointers on how to fix this, I would love to fix this myself. -Lew

ps. the section headers in chapter 3 also need some work, 3.1.1 is the only section that is really about python being a calculator 3.1.2 and 3.1.3 don't seem very 'calculator-y' - Id like to fix this too.

[gpshead]

New changeset f019579 by Gregory P. Smith (Lew Kurtz) in branch 'master':
bpo-33460: remove ellipsis that look like continuation prompts (GH-7851)
f019579

[miss-islington]

New changeset 037582e by Miss Islington (bot) in branch '3.7':
bpo-33460: remove ellipsis that look like continuation prompts (GH-7851)
037582e

[lew18]

Removed the ellipses from the examples, so not confused with continuation prompt. Is clearer now.