On 26 August 2017 at 03:17, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > In pretty much any other context, if you have an operation that returns an > regular value or an error value, the error value should be None. (Exceptions > include e.g. returning a non-negative int or -1 for errors, or True for > success and False for errors.)
So, given that build_sdist returns the path of the newly built sdist, the correct way to signal "I didn't manage to build a sdist" would be to return None. Now that it's put this way, it seems glaringly obvious to me that this is the correct thing to do. Paul _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig
