[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Misc NEWS, 1.1193.2.27, 1.1193.2.28 (original) (raw)

Raymond Hettinger python at rcn.com
Fri Mar 4 04:35:18 CET 2005

> SF bug #1155938: Missing None check for init().

Won't this break working (but erroneous) code? If so, should it be applied to the 2.4 branch?

Hmm, more than one poster found the error message to be helpful in detecting buggy code. The non-None return value was a pretty good indicator that the code was doing something other than what the programmer intended.

OTOH, there is almost certainly some existing, working code that would stop working.

How about changing this to a warning in Py2.4?

Raymond

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