Max M wrote:
>This is a common idiom:
>
>def f(names=None):
> if names == None:
> names = []
> ...
Hmmm. I would have done "if names is None". No chance of confusing
the object with an object that overrides __cmp__.
I rarely, if ever, need tests of the form "ret == None".
Andrew
dalke at dalkescientific.com