On 27/07/18 17:23, Schachner, Joseph wrote:
Re: "...whilething == None would work perfectly in almost all cases in practice, it's unidiomatic and suggests the writer isn't quite comfortable with the workings of the language" I admit, I've been a C++ programmer for many years and a Python programmer for only about 5 years. But, I did learn something here. I've read books on Python and somehow still did not know that None is guaranteed to be a singleton in all implementations, and that not only does "thing is None" therefore work (guaranteed), but that that is the Pythonic thing to do. ... Maybe I missed it, but I'll remember it now. --- Joseph S.
Your apology is accepted. Thank you. -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
