Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > That's because of the _PyIO_ConvertSsize_t converter, which silently > converts None to -1. > There's probably a good reason for doing this in the _io module
I'm not sure about the original reason, but I find None as the default "omitted" value prettier than -1 myself, so I think it's a good thing :) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12021> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com