Why return None?

[Michael Hudson]

Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 08:26:26 GMT, Martin DeMello
> <martindemello at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > It seems to be a fairly common pattern for an object-modifying method to
> > return None - however, this is often quite inconvenient.
> 
> list.reverse() modifies the list in place. The python idiom is that
> these don't return a reference to the modified list. Although note the
> new list.sorted() method in 2.4...

It's a builtin now (as is reversed).

Cheers,
mwh

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