Why return None?

[Raymond Hettinger]

Martin DeMello <martindemello at yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<S2YWc.201615$M95.19420 at pd7tw1no>...
> It seems to be a fairly common pattern for an object-modifying method to
> return None - however, this is often quite inconvenient.

The FAQs provide a clue to Guido's thinking on this subject:

http://www.python.org/doc/faq/general.html#why-doesn-t-list-sort-return-the-sorted-list



Raymond Hettinger