April 5, 2012
1:34 p.m.
On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 10:06:38PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Oleg Broytman <phd@phdru.name> wrote:
Well, I am partially retreat. "Errors should never pass silently. Unless explicitly silenced." get_clock(FLAG, on_error=None) could return None.
I still don't see what's erroneous about returning None when asked for an object that is documented to possibly not exist, ever, in some implementations. Isn't that precisely why None exists?
Why doesn't open() return None for a non-existing file? or socket.gethostbyname() for a non-existing name? Oleg. -- Oleg Broytman http://phdru.name/ phd@phdru.name Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.