NoneType and new instances

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Thu Jul 28 21:20:59 EDT 2011


Ian Kelly wrote:

> Why would you ever need to instantiate NoneType?


Well, you probably wouldn't deliberately, but if you have code like this:


types = [type(x) for x in list_of_objects]
# later on...
for t in types:
    instance = t()
    do_something_with(instance)


it would be nice if it didn't explode when list_of_objects contains None.


-- 
Steven




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