On 7/28/19 6:04 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > This is a fairly unusual case, though. More commonly, the default > would be None, not False, and "if bar is None:" is extremely well > known and idiomatic.
Ahh yes, true. > This analysis is correct, but the situations where you *actually* want > to know if something "is True" or "is False" are rare enough that PEP > 8 doesn't need to mention them; whereas the case where you actually > just need the truthiness is so common (and so often miswritten) that > it's worth being clear on it. It may well be that a distinct sentinel object is preferred to True or False in the majority of cases. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
