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On Sun, Jun 5, 2016, at 15:20, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> I say None is a wooden post, you say None is a puppy.
> 
> What piece of Python code could put our dispute to rest?

isinstance(None, object)

Anyway, I read the "wooden post" claim as suggesting that a reference to
None is somehow different from other references, as null in C# or Java
is different from an object reference in those languages.