Suggestions for good programming practices?

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Tue Jun 25 17:49:38 EDT 2002


In article <afafee$fc$0 at 216.39.172.122>, Bengt Richter <bokr at oz.net> wrote:
>
>Do you recommend using def foo(*args) and testing len(args) instead?

Only if you really want a list of unnamed parameters.  Personally, I
usually prefer to pass a sequence directly in such cases, to distinguish
between None (i.e. no list) and the empty list.
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