On 2005-07-06, Ron Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It would be a way to set an argument as being optional without actually > assigning a value to it. The conflict would be if there where a global > with the name baz as well. Probably it would be better to use a valid > null value for what ever baz if for. If it's a string then "", if its a > number then 0, if it's a list then [], etc...
Except those aren't "null values" for those types. 0 is a perfectly good integer value, and I use it quite often. There's a big difference between an "invalid integer value" and an integer with value 0. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I've read SEVEN at MILLION books!! visi.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list