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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:12:13 -0600
Subject: Re: NoneType and new instances
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On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> Why is NoneType unable to produce a None instance? =A0I realise that None=
 is a
> singleton, but so are True and False, and bool is able to handle returnin=
g
> them:

The bool constructor works (actually just returns one of the existing
singletons) so that you can do things like this:

truth_value =3D bool(x + 5)
return my_dict[truth_value]

Why would you ever need to instantiate NoneType?