Guilty as charged
Mark Lawrence
breamoreboy at gmail.com
Fri Jul 27 15:30:34 EDT 2018
On 27/07/18 17:23, Schachner, Joseph wrote:
> Re: "...while
>
> thing == None
> would work perfectly in almost all cases in practice, it's unidiomatic and suggests the writer isn't quite comfortable with the workings of the language"
>
> I admit, I've been a C++ programmer for many years and a Python programmer for only about 5 years. But, I did learn something here. I've read books on Python and somehow still did not know that None is guaranteed to be a singleton in all implementations, and that not only does "thing is None" therefore work (guaranteed), but that that is the Pythonic thing to do. ... Maybe I missed it, but I'll remember it now.
>
> --- Joseph S.
>
Your apology is accepted. Thank you.
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Mark Lawrence
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