NoneType and new instances

[Steven D'Aprano]

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