My first Python program

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On 2010-10-12, Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote:
> 2.
> self.f = file(path, 'r')
> if not self.f:
>     return None
>
> The "if" here is pointless; I'm reasonably sure files are always
> considered boolean true.

I actually seem to have done this wrong anyway -- I was thinking in
terms of the C-like idiom of returning NULL when a constructor-like thing
fails.  This ought to have been a raise of some sort to prevent the caller
from getting an object that didn't work out.

> Python's grammar has "not in" as an "operator" for just such occasions ==>

Ahh!

-s
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