Is it possible (and wise) to extend the None-type ?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2008-11-26 18:55, Stef Mientki wrote:
> hello,
> 
> I've the idea that I always have a lot of useless code in my programs,
> like the next example.
> 
>  def _On_Menu_File_Open ( self, event = None ):
>    if event :
>     event.Skip ()
> 
> instead of
> 
>  def _On_Menu_File_Open ( self, event = None ):
>   event.Skip ()
> 
> So I would like to extend the None-type (if that's possible),
> with a dummy Skip() method.
> 
> Is it wise to do ?
> If not what are the disadvantages ?

This doesn't work. None is a Python singleton that cannot be
subclassed.

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