Personally I think returning None is a fine API design, and IMO the
concerns about this pattern are overblown. Note that X|None is no different
than the "Maybe X" pattern that functional programmers are so fond of.
On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 8:02 AM Philipp Burch wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've only here
Hi Ken,
thank you for the inputs. Just one more comment:
I actually find myself often factoring such data out of loops in Python,
whereas in C I would just leave that to the optimizer/compiler.
The compiler in CPython can't really do that because it's not safe in Python.
The user could've
Hi all,
I've only here found out that there is a discussion going on about those
none-aware operators and my first thought was "great, finally!". FWIW,
I'd be happy with the syntax suggestion in the PEP, since '?' looks
rather intuitive to me to mean something like "maybe".
However, I then r
On 15.09.22 00:05, Jeremiah Gabriel Pascual wrote:
I've frequently explored the new adaptive, inline caching code generated by 3.11.
"inline caching" does not mean result caching (like what C/C++ might do) here,
but rather it should mean the caching of info used for the adaptive instructions. T
Hi Phillip, thanks for your interest in CPython.
How Python views your code isn't how you view your code. CPython views source
code instead as something called "bytecode/wordcode". This bytecode is a
lower-level intermediary language that the CPython interpreter executes. You
can read more abou
