[Python-Dev] an alternative to embedding policy in PEP 418 (was: PEP 418: Add monotonic clock) (original) (raw)
Oleg Broytman phd at phdru.name
Thu Apr 5 15:34:11 CEST 2012
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On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 10:06:38PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 8:05 AM, Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> wrote: > Well, I am partially retreat. "Errors should never pass silently. > Unless explicitly silenced." getclock(FLAG, onerror=None) could return > None.
I still don't see what's erroneous about returning None when asked for an object that is documented to possibly not exist, ever, in some implementations. Isn't that precisely why None exists?
Why doesn't open() return None for a non-existing file? or socket.gethostbyname() for a non-existing name?
Oleg.
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