When I run pychecker through my modules I get the message that
comparisons with "False" is not necessary and that it might yield
unexpected results.
Yet in some situations I need to specifically check whether False was
returned or None was returned. Why is comparison with False so bad?
# example code which matches both False and None
if not var:
# do something
# specifically check if False is returned
# I don't want None
if var == False:
# do something
So how do you get around this? My functions return False and None under
different circumstances. Should I raise exceptions instead? I feel it's
unnecessary clutter to use exceptions unless absolutely no other solution
is available and yet I have doubts about the "False" value.
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