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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:45:05 -0500
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On 12/21/2012 12:23 AM, iMath wrote:
> Pass and return
> Are these two functions the same ?
>
> def test():
> 	return
>   
> def test():
> 	pass


 From the point of style, of course, the latter is
much better because that's the idiomatic way
to define a no-op function. With a return, it
looks like you might have forgotten to add the
value to return or deleted it by mistake.

  -m

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