[Tutor] Tutor Digest, Vol 92, Issue 128

[bob gailer]

On 10/31/2011 1:26 PM, Asokan Pichai wrote:
> Hugo's explanation is nice and clear.
>
> You may also want to look at this way
> Consider the most simplified form of the issue
>
> def alpha():
>       if  X:
>            beta()
>       else:
>            return q
>
> Here in the*if branch* nothing is returned

None is returned, not nothing.
> while in the *else branch *something is being returned.
>
> That is  whenever X is True nothing is returned from alpha().
> Even if beta() returns something that is not being used.
>
> But when X is False something (q in this simplistic example)
> is being returned
>
> So this is a bug.
>
> HTH
>
> Asokan Pichai
> SVP - Learning and Development
>
> "Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to 
> believe. "
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>
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