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Re: NoneType and new instances

Date 2011-07-28 15:10 -0700
From Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
Subject Re: NoneType and new instances
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Chris Angelico wrote:
> 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.

More amusing still:

def NoneType():
     "Returns None"

~Ethan~

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Re: NoneType and new instances Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-07-28 15:10 -0700

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