New submission from Steven D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info>:
Do the print docs need to mention something so obvious? Functions and methods which operate by side-effect typically don't mention that they return None, see for example the docs for various builtin methods: https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#mutable-sequence-types e.g. s.append, s.clear, s.extend, s.insert, s.remove, s.reverse and likewise for list.sort, set.add, dict.clear and many others. (However, dict.update is a rare exception, it does mention that it returns None.) We should not feel it necessary to add an explicit comment to every function or method that operates by side-effect stating that they return None. ---------- nosy: +steven.daprano _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue46282> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
