25 Apr
2002
25 Apr
'02
8:08 p.m.
I'd like to make None a keyword. This prevents dumb users from assigning to it and screwing themselves, and can cause a slight speedup because using None avoids two dict lookups.
- Any objections?
- Can somebody help me implement this? I've got the parser changes ready, but not the compiler changes.
Believe it or not, Zope3 contains code that will break with this change: there are functions with a default argument of the form None=None as a speedup hack. I think this is an argument *for* the change. :-)
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)