Is everyone on board with that? On Aug 26, 2017 4:29 AM, "Paul Moore" <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26 August 2017 at 03:17, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > > In pretty much any other context, if you have an operation that returns > an > > regular value or an error value, the error value should be None. > (Exceptions > > include e.g. returning a non-negative int or -1 for errors, or True for > > success and False for errors.) > > So, given that build_sdist returns the path of the newly built sdist, > the correct way to signal "I didn't manage to build a sdist" would be > to return None. > > Now that it's put this way, it seems glaringly obvious to me that this > is the correct thing to do. > Paul >
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