I'm bored with that

On Sat, Aug 26, 2017, 11:59 xoviat <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is everyone on board with that?
>
> On Aug 26, 2017 4:29 AM, "Paul Moore" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 26 August 2017 at 03:17, Guido van Rossum <[email protected]> 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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