Mitya Sirenef <msire...@lightbird.net> wrote: > On 12/21/2012 12:23 AM, iMath wrote: >> Pass and return >> Are these two functions the same ? >> >> def test(): >> return >> >> def test(): >> pass > > > From the point of style, of course, the latter is > much better because that's the idiomatic way > to define a no-op function. With a return, it > looks like you might have forgotten to add the > value to return or deleted it by mistake. > I would say it is *an* idiomatic way to define a no-op function.
Another idiomatic way is to use a doc-string as the only body, that way you can also explain why you feel the need for an empty function. -- Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
