Mike Meyer wrote: > Dave Benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Python is actually quite consistent in this regard: methods that >>modify an object in-place return None; > > Um, no. list.pop comes to mind as an immediate counterexample. It may > be the only one...
I'm sure there are counterexamples... maybe 95% is too optimistic. Anyone want to volunteer to compile some stats? ;) I've never had to look up the return type of "pop" though. The only thing even remotely ambigious about that term (at least, if you've learned what a stack is) is whether it mutates the object, but I don't think I've ever seen a "pop" that didn't (aside from toy examples in formal methods / ADT related classes). "os.system" might be a better example, since the return value could be one of two obvious things: the status code, or the program's output. Dave -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
