During a conversation today, I realised that the convention of
returning None from methods that change an object's state isn't
captured the Programming Recommendations section of PEP 8.
Specifically, I'm referring to this behaviour:
>>> [].sort() is None
True
>>> "ABC".lower() is None
False
That'
Here is some proposed wording. Since it is more of a clarification of what
it takes to garner support -- which is just a new section -- rather than a
complete rewrite I'm including just the diff to make it easier to read the
changes.
*diff -r 49d18bb47ebc pep-0011.txt*
*--- a/pep-0011.txt Wed Ma
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