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On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> When is it ever useful though?

About as often as int(0), float(0), or float(0.0) which all work as
expected, though probably don't turn up in a lot of code.

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