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Re:What is wrong with NULL by _Ogre on Monday August 31, 2015 @06:14PM (#10149422)
You can get a None type when you are expecting a String type... that is exactly the bug they are talking about. The fact that Python makes this problem BIGGER by allowing other types as well doesn't make it less bug prone.
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Re:What is wrong with NULL by Latty on Tuesday September 01, 2015 @12:12PM (#10153434)
Except the language is designed around this - for example, trying to get a value from a dictionary in Python doesn't return `None` if it doesn't exist, it throws an exception.

I'm not saying static typing has no value, but there are benefits to dynamic typing, and Python embraces its dynamic typing and is designed around it, so none of the problems given in the article really apply.

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