[Python-Dev] Challenge about print >> None

[Greg Ewing]

Fredrik Lundh <effbot@telia.com>:

> "map(None, seq)" uses None to indicate that there are really
> no function to map things through.

This one is just as controversial as print>>None. I would
argue that it *doesn't* mean "no function", because that
doesn't make sense -- there always has to be *some* function.
It really means "use a default function which constructs
a tuple from its arguments".

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