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From: Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: Show off your Python chops and compete with others
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 19:47:46 +1300
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alex23 wrote:
> In [2]: import dis
> In [3]: dis.dis(foo)
>   2           0 LOAD_GLOBAL              0 (Exception)
>               3 RAISE_VARARGS            1
>               6 LOAD_CONST               0 (None)
>               9 RETURN_VALUE
> 
> Seeing as we're being pedantic, the function *does* return None, it's 
> just that the return value is never seen because an exception is raise.

Koan for the day:

If a man goes into the forest and never returns,
does he bring back nothing?

-- 
Greg