Re: Assigning to None (was Re: Question about Python)

2005-07-03 Thread Bengt Richter
On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 09:11:19 +1000, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 03 Jul 2005 19:19:05 +, Bengt Richter wrote: > >> On Sun, 03 Jul 2005 11:47:07 +1000, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>>On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 12:59:20 -0400, François Pinard wrote: >>> >>>

Re: Assigning to None (was Re: Question about Python)

2005-07-03 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Sun, 03 Jul 2005 19:19:05 +, Bengt Richter wrote: > On Sun, 03 Jul 2005 11:47:07 +1000, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 12:59:20 -0400, François Pinard wrote: >> >>> [Peter Hansen] Mike Meyer wrote: > Yes. I once grabbed an old program that did

Re: Assigning to None (was Re: Question about Python)

2005-07-03 Thread Bengt Richter
On Sun, 03 Jul 2005 11:47:07 +1000, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 12:59:20 -0400, François Pinard wrote: > >> [Peter Hansen] >>> Mike Meyer wrote: >>> > Yes. I once grabbed an old program that did assignments to None. But >>> > that's always been a bad idea. >> >

Re: Assigning to None (was Re: Question about Python)

2005-07-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 12:59:20 -0400, François Pinard wrote: > [Peter Hansen] >> Mike Meyer wrote: >> > Yes. I once grabbed an old program that did assignments to None. But >> > that's always been a bad idea. > >> What was the use case!? > > People used to assign None to itself as a keyword argume

Re: Assigning to None (was Re: Question about Python)

2005-07-01 Thread François Pinard
[Peter Hansen] > Mike Meyer wrote: > > Yes. I once grabbed an old program that did assignments to None. But > > that's always been a bad idea. > What was the use case!? People used to assign None to itself as a keyword argument in function headers. The goal was to make a local copy of the refere

Assigning to None (was Re: Question about Python)

2005-07-01 Thread Peter Hansen
Mike Meyer wrote: > Yes. I once grabbed an old program that did assignments to None. But > that's always been a bad idea. What was the use case!? -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list