Hwy doesn't len(None) return zero ?

[Stef Mientki]

 hello,

I've lot of functions that returns their result in some kind of tuple / list / array,
and if there is no result, these functions return None.
Now I'm often what to do something if I've more than 1 element in the result.
So I test:

   if len ( Result ) > 1 :

But to prevent exceptions, i've to write ( I often forget)
    if Result and ( len ( Result ) > 1 ) :

So I wonder why len is not allowed on None
and if there are objections to extend the len function .

thanks,
Stef Mientki
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