Assigning to None (was Re: Question about Python)

[François Pinard]

[Peter Hansen]
> Mike Meyer wrote:
> > Yes. I once grabbed an old program that did assignments to None. But
> > that's always been a bad idea.

> What was the use case!?

People used to assign None to itself as a keyword argument in function
headers.  The goal was to make a local copy of the reference, which was
then accessed faster than the global thing.

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