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A comment on PEP 505: Bringing None-Aware Operators to Python. Parent comment

Re:PEP 505: Bringing None-Aware Operators to Python by pjz on Sunday August 12, 2018 @03:26PM (#17745985)
This is subtly incorrect. Correctly, it should be:

    libpaths = paths.split(":") if paths is not None else []
or else falsey values of paths (0, [], False) can still cause an error.
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Re:PEP 505: Bringing None-Aware Operators to Python by singularity2001 on Monday August 13, 2018 @03:17AM (#17748517)
If your path variable is set to 0, [], False then it's best to fail early anyways.
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