PyWart: The problem with "print"

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 04 Jun 2013 05:16:13 +0200, Vito De Tullio wrote:

> Rick Johnson wrote:
> 
>> Take your
>> standard yes/no/cancel dialog, i would expect it to return
>> True|False|None respectively,
> 
> you clearly mean True / False / FileNotFound.
> 
> ( http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/What_Is_Truth_0x3f_.aspx )


No no, he actually means 

return True
return False
raise an exception


Or perhaps 

0
1
2

Or perhaps:

'yes'
'no'
'cancel'

like all right-thinking people expect *wink*

Of course the one thing that a programmer should never, ever do, under 
pain of maybe having to learn something, is actually check the 
documentation of an unfamiliar library or function before making 
assumptions of what it will return. If you follow this advice, you too 
can enjoy the benefits of writing buggy code.



-- 
Steven