Grant Edwards wrote: > 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.
Why would you want to use None as an integer value? If a value isn't established yet, then do you need the name defined? Wouldn't it be better to wait until you need the name then give it a value? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
