Paul Rubin wrote: > Generally, having a special > value like None to denote a missing datum was considered standard > practice a few decades ago,
I guess in python, None as the missing datum idiom is still quite prevalent: def cat_list(a=None, b=None): # poor man's list concatenation if a is None and b is None: return [] if a is None: return b if b is None: return a return a + b -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list