Something or Nothing^H^H^H^H^H^H^HEmpty

Anders J. Munch andersjm at dancontrol.dk
Wed Apr 10 05:36:51 EDT 2002


"Philip Swartzleonard" <starx at pacbell.net> wrote:
> Hm, interesting.
>
> Right at this molment (and i'm a little tired), i'm thinking that None
> is only nothing by itself. Think of this, if we say:
>
> x = None
>
> x still exists. It isn't nothing.

Of course; strictly speaking None is something, it's an object in its own
right.  It is only by convention that we use it to indicate the absense of a
more meaningful value.

- Anders





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