On Mar 14, 6:13 am, Arnaud Delobelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 13, 10:42 am, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > > By Python convention, methods that mutate the object return None, and > > also stuff that returns None doesn't generate output at the > > interactive prompt. > > A convention that does not always hold: > > > > >>> l = [1, 2, 3] > >>> l.pop() > 3 > >>> l > [1, 2]
Try this then for the "convention": Any function/method that is not documented to return something else should be assumed to return None. Note: no nexus with whether or not the function/method mutates its args. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
