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From: Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:22:38 -0500
Subject: Re: Test None for an object that does not implement ==
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> Um -- if you don't want a and c being passed in, why put them in the
> function signature?

He wants both or neither to be passed in.

-- Devin

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> GZ wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I run into a weird problem. I have a piece of code that looks like the
>> following:
>>
>> f(...., a=3DNone, c=3DNone):
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0assert =C2=A0(a=3D=3DNone)=3D=3D(c=3D=3DNone)
>
>
>
> Um -- if you don't want a and c being passed in, why put them in the
> function signature?
>
> ~Ethan~
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