In message <mailman.567.1283927599.29448.python-l...@python.org>, Ian Kelly 
wrote:

> And returning None on failure is dangerous, because if the programmer
> does not take care to handle that case, the program may attempt to
> regard it as actual data.

But None *is* actual data.
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