[Python-Dev] PEP 559 - built-in noop()
Antoine Pitrou
solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Sep 9 16:35:34 EDT 2017
On Sat, 9 Sep 2017 11:46:30 -0700
Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
>
> Rationale
> =========
>
> It is trivial to implement a no-op function in Python. It's so easy in fact
> that many people do it many times over and over again. It would be useful in
> many cases to have a common built-in function that does nothing.
You forgot to mention the advantage of battle-testing the noop()
function on our buildbot fleet! You don't want to compromise your
application code with a weak noop() function.
> The C built-in implementation is available as a pull request.
Does it guarantee reentrancy?
Regards
Antoine.
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