Random832 <random...@fastmail.com>: > On Sun, Jun 5, 2016, at 04:01, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> You could also think of variables as pegs, references as leashes, and >> objects as cute puppies. One puppy could be held with multiple >> leashes hung on separate pegs. Some puppies hold leashes in their >> mouths. Every leash is tied to a puppy or a special wooden post >> called None. > > You've got it all wrong about what's special about None. The object is > just another puppy. There *is* a variable called None > [getattr(__builtins__, 'None')] which holds a leash tied to that > puppy, but it's rarely used, since everyone knows how to find that > puppy directly [None is a keyword]. But nothing's special about the > object itself, no more than any other object.
I say None is a wooden post, you say None is a puppy. What piece of Python code could put our dispute to rest? Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
