On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 at 09:59, Cameron Simpson via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote:
> I wasted some time the other evening on an API which returned a string > or None. My own API, and the pain it caused tells me that that API > design choice isn't good (it's an automatic attribute based on a tag, > returning None if the tag isn't there). My experience so far is that it > _looks_ handy so that you can safely say "foo.bar" all the time, but as > soon a you do something with the value you're in for a world of > None-checking. > https://peps.python.org/pep-0505/ ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
