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Re: NoneType and new instances

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Date 2011-07-29 07:16 +1000
Subject Re: NoneType and new instances
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.1594.1311887809.1164.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> I'll use a lambda to get around it, but that's not very elegant.  Why
> shouldn't NoneType be able to return the singleton None?

Why a lambda?

def ThisFunctionWillReturnNone():
    pass

Although, since the returning of None is crucial to it, it'd probably
be better to explicitly "return None". But minimalist useful functions
are amusing.

ChrisA

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Re: NoneType and new instances Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-29 07:16 +1000
  Re: NoneType and new instances Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-07-29 11:29 +1000

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