On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 16:06 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:
> James Mills wrote:
> > Are we done with this discussion yet ? :)
> > *sigh* It was a slow day yesterday and I have
> > a funny feeling it's going to be the same today!
> >
> > Regardless of anyone's subjective opinions as to what
> > was clear - I still stand by what I said.
>
> I think I see your point -- the OP said:
> --> _temp = expr
> --> if _temp: return _temp
>
> which is where you're getting
> --> return _temp or None
>
> However, most everyone ('cept you, it seems! ;) understood that there
> would be more lines of code such that if bool(expr) == False no return
> is executed and the function keeps going merrily along. Like this:
> --> def func():
> --> var1 = something()
> --> var2 = something_else('this')
> --> return? var1.hobgle(var2)
> --> var3 = last_resort(var1)
> --> return var3.wiglat(var2)
>
>
> Looking back at the whole post now, I see nothing there to concretely
> make that point except the question mark on the return.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> ~Ethan~
The question mark makes the programmer look like he wasn't sure of what
he was doing at the time. "Hmm, should I return this object or not?"
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