getlist question

[Victor Subervi]

On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Steven D'Aprano <
steve at remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:59:20 -0500, Benjamin Kaplan wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Victor Subervi
> > <victorsubervi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> It returns nothing. I believe I've stated that three times now.
> >
> > In Python, that's not possible. Every function returns something.
>
>
> Unless it raises an exception.
>
>
> > If you
> > think it returns nothing, it probably returns None.
>
> Very possibly, but this is Victor you're talking too, and as far as I can
> tell he hasn't shown his actual code. For all we know he has something
> like this:
>
> alist = [1, 2, 3]
> try:
>    result = alist[100]
> except:
>    pass
> print result
>
>
> See? Nothing is returned as the result.
>

:)
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