On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 at 04:03, Zach Victor <zmvic...@gmail.com> wrote: > Where does this land with PEP 20? I think the use of pop() as you suggest > lands on the implicit side of things and is not as readable: the reader has > to ask, "what are we doing with the default value? Oh. Nothing. It's to > delete a dict entry." However, pop() with the default value of None is > practical, and practicality does beat purity. >
"Implicit" does not mean "code that I dislike". The pop method is exactly what it appears to be: a way to remove something, with either an error or a default if it's not found. It then returns the thing. Ignoring a function's return value is perfectly normal. There are all manner of functions which you use all the time, and it's not a problem to have them return something you usually don't care about (like f.write() returning how much it wrote). ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/AF4AE2OLULG3VHZSN47U73AFGA73JE5A/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
