[Mailman-Developers] [Branch~mailman-coders/mailman/2.2] Rev 1046: - Changed someold messages for more current meaning.

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Mar 17, 2009, at 03:03 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>If you document the style in a developer's guide or something like
>that, I'd rather not have the comment every time.

That's a good point, and I do intend to update the Mailman style guide to
cover this.

>"None" would seem
>to indicate "Yo!  Initialize me!", and you'd check for that with "if
>data is None".

Exactly right.

>"if not data" would be the case where either there
>never was anything to do, or nothing is left to do, so stop doing it.
>And if len(data) == 0 is a terminal condition for initialized data.
>So I don't think you need the comment.
>
>Or are there other usages you have in mind that I've missed?

Nope, that about covers it.  So maybe the comment is overkill given a(n
updated) style guide to work from.

Barry
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