On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > Why is NoneType unable to produce a None instance? I realise that None is a > singleton, but so are True and False, and bool is able to handle returning > them:
The bool constructor works (actually just returns one of the existing singletons) so that you can do things like this: truth_value = bool(x + 5) return my_dict[truth_value] Why would you ever need to instantiate NoneType? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
