[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-658254 ] Accept None for time.ctime() and friends

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Bugs item #658254, was opened at 2002-12-24 11:58
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Category: Extension Modules
Group: Feature Request
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Assigned to: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Summary: Accept None for time.ctime() and friends

Initial Comment:
Several functions in the time module can have the time

value they operate on omitted to indicate the current

time, but they do not accept None as equivalent to

omitting the value.  It should be equivalent.

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>Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2003-09-10 11:45

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I generally expect that None should be accepted for an

omitted arg, but Guido has certainly never cared about that.

 Given that no existing code passes None, it's ok to reject.

 If the truth be told, though, the current situation

certainly complicates some existing code!

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Comment By: Christopher Blunck (blunck2)
Date: 2003-01-06 22:43

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see patch 663482

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