Python Best Practice Patterns

Re:Python Best Practice Patterns by jessaustin on Friday February 28, 2014 @02:00PM (#7320737)

Just speculating here, but a func that just ends without returning, effectively returns None, so that idiom may be considered redundant. IMHO, it's often worth the additional clarity to be redundant in this way.

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Re:Python Best Practice Patterns by pyre on Saturday March 01, 2014 @09:48AM (#7324365)

Yes, but the "Pythonic" way to do things is that "explicit is better than implicit," so I'm not sure what the original poster considers wrong with `return None`.

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Re:Python Best Practice Patterns by StavrosK on Friday February 28, 2014 @02:14PM (#7320821)

    In [1]: def foo(): pass
    
    In [2]: foo() is None
    Out[2]: True

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Re:Python Best Practice Patterns by jessaustin on Friday February 28, 2014 @02:34PM (#7320930)

I was speculating about what the original complainer meant, not about what python does... b^)

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