Feb. 22, 2014
3:57 a.m.
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Glenn Linderman <v+python@g.nevcal.com> wrote:
Here's a challenge: There has been a big thread about None versus (SQL) Null. Show how an except: expression can help the DB API more easily convert from using None to using a new Null singleton, and you'll have a winner :)
Heh! I'm not entirely sure how that would work, as I've only skimmed the DB API thread, but I understand part of it is to do with sorting. I'm not sure how you could embed an except-expression into that without either changing the sort function or potentially doing part of the sort twice: lst = sorted(stuff) except TypeError: sorted(stuff, key=keyfunc) at which point you may as well go straight to the key= form from the start. ChrisA