On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 10:06:38PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Oleg Broytman <p...@phdru.name> wrote: > > Well, I am partially retreat. "Errors should never pass silently. > > Unless explicitly silenced." get_clock(FLAG, on_error=None) could return > > None. > > I still don't see what's erroneous about returning None when asked for > an object that is documented to possibly not exist, ever, in some > implementations. Isn't that precisely why None exists?
Why doesn't open() return None for a non-existing file? or socket.gethostbyname() for a non-existing name? Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ p...@phdru.name Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com