[Python-Dev] Null checking

Michael Hudson mwh@python.net
10 Jun 2002 14:37:30 +0100


Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

> > I'd also like to know why all the (for instance) methods in
> > tupleobject.c start with "if (!PyTuple_Check(self)".  You'd have to
> > try REALLY hard to get those tests to fail...
> 
> I found exactly one call to PyTuple_Check() that satisfies that
> description, and it was in your own (uncommitted) addition,
> tuplesubscript(). :-)

Yeah.  I wonder what I was thinking when I wrote that (it was two
years ago now, after all).

Never mind, I'll do my research better before my next post.

Cheers,
M.

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