Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
> * Peter Otten:
>> Alf P. Steinbach wrote:
>>> * Peter Otten:
>>>> unidiomatic None-checks
>>> What's the idiomatic Python way for an optional thing?
>>
>> if some_value is None: ...
>
> Thanks!
>
> But why is this preferred?
I guess because `some_value == None` restricts your choices if you want to
give some_value's usual class an __eq__ method. It's a pretty arcane
point.. but perhaps not.. the object named "some_value" might belong to a
class that expects its instances only to be compared with each other, for
the sake of economy and clear code.
Mel.
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