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Re: What exactly is "pass"? What should it be?

Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Date 2011-11-17 21:07 -0800
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Subject Re: What exactly is "pass"? What should it be?
From John Ladasky <ladasky@my-deja.com>
Message-ID <mailman.2821.1321592848.27778.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Thursday, November 17, 2011 8:34:22 PM UTC-8, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:18:11 -0800 (PST), John Ladasky
> <lad...@my-deja.com> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
> > def _pass(*args):
> >     pass
> >
> 	This is the equivalent of
> 
> def _pass(*args):
> 	return None
> 
> (functions with no explicit return statement implicitly return None)

OK, that works for me, and now I understand.

One of my questions was: would there be any merit to having the Python "pass" token itself defined exactly as _pass() is defined above?

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What exactly is "pass"?  What should it be? John Ladasky <ladasky@my-deja.com> - 2011-11-17 18:18 -0800
  Re: What exactly is "pass"? What should it be? Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2011-11-17 18:45 -0800
    Re: What exactly is "pass"? What should it be? John Ladasky <ladasky@my-deja.com> - 2011-11-17 21:03 -0800
    Re: What exactly is "pass"? What should it be? John Ladasky <ladasky@my-deja.com> - 2011-11-17 21:03 -0800
  Re: What exactly is "pass"? What should it be? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-11-18 13:59 +1100
    Re: What exactly is "pass"? What should it be? alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2011-11-17 22:04 -0800
  Re: What exactly is "pass"? What should it be? Dominic Binks <dbinks@codeaurora.org> - 2011-11-17 19:01 -0800
  Re: What exactly is "pass"?  What should it be? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-11-18 14:45 +1100
  Re: What exactly is "pass"?  What should it be? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-11-17 20:34 -0800
    Re: What exactly is "pass"?  What should it be? John Ladasky <ladasky@my-deja.com> - 2011-11-17 21:07 -0800
      Re: What exactly is "pass"? What should it be? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-11-18 16:34 +1100
      Re: What exactly is "pass"? What should it be? Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2011-11-17 21:49 -0800
      Re: What exactly is "pass"?  What should it be? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-11-18 06:07 +0000
    Re: What exactly is "pass"?  What should it be? John Ladasky <ladasky@my-deja.com> - 2011-11-17 21:07 -0800
    Re: What exactly is "pass"?  What should it be? Thomas Rachel <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915@spamschutz.glglgl.de> - 2011-11-18 10:57 +0100
  Re: What exactly is "pass"?  What should it be? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2011-11-18 13:03 +0000

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