On 2021年10月15日 12:36:15 +1100 Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Doug, > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 03:45:07PM -0000, Doug Swarin wrote: > > > I believe strong and valid arguments can be made about the use of None > > being a fundamental flaw in some types of coding > > Can you elaborate on that? Obviously it is not always appropriate to use > None, but I've never seen it called a *fundamental* flaw. > > I know that the null pointer has been called a billion-dollar mistake, > but Python's None is not a null pointer.
(except in Cython, but that's Cython's fault here) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/GB2GZI3XHE4RJ4RSNAZB6QAOAU5DUK6J/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/