João Bernardo added the comment: Not really. Just consistency:
For the same reason ' foo '.strip(None) works... To avoid special casing the function call when you already have a variable to hold the argument. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue19933> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com