[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Misc NEWS, 1.1193.2.27, 1.1193.2.28

Anthony Baxter anthony at interlink.com.au
Fri Mar 4 04:56:08 CET 2005


On Friday 04 March 2005 14:35, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> Hmm, more than one poster found the error message to be helpful in
> detecting buggy code.  The non-None return value was a pretty good
> indicator that the code was doing something other than what the
> programmer intended.
>
> OTOH, there is almost certainly some existing, working code that would
> stop working.
>
> How about changing this to a warning in Py2.4?

+1

That would seem to be the prudent choice.

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