Should probably take Guido out of this email chain now. And does everyone agree with what Nathaniel said on sys.path?
On Aug 26, 2017 11:00 AM, "Daniel Holth" <dho...@gmail.com> wrote: I'm bored with that On Sat, Aug 26, 2017, 11:59 xoviat <xov...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > > Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig >
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