[Python-Dev] AC Derby and accepting None for optional positional arguments

[Tres Seaver]

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On 01/16/2014 12:32 AM, Larry Hastings wrote:
> We could add a special value, let's call it sys.NULL, whose specific
> semantics are "turns into NULL when passed into builtins".  This would
> solve the problem but it's really, really awful.

That doesn't smell too bad too me -- I would prefer to be able to build
up all such calls programmatically for testing purposes (e.g., to ensure
identical semantics for all code paths between a Python reference
implementation and a C extension).


Tres.
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