On 17 May 2014 19:56, "Antoine Pitrou" <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > On Sat, 17 May 2014 15:14:00 +1000 > Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > During a conversation today, I realised that the convention of > > returning None from methods that change an object's state isn't > > captured the Programming Recommendations section of PEP 8. > > This is more an API design guideline than a programming recommandation, > IMO. If we start putting those in PEP 8, it will end up bloating the > PEP. > (perhaps we need another PEP?)
A new entry in https://docs.python.org/3/faq/design.html may be a reasonable option. It's not like it comes up *that* often, and as Nathaniel pointed out, the main advantage of writing it down somewhere is to be able to link to it in the future. Cheers, Nick. > > Regards > > Antoine. > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/ncoghlan%40gmail.com
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