getting back None (was: Re: Perl is worse! (was: Python is Wierd!))

[Peter Schneider-Kamp]

Steve Lamb wrote:
> 
>     If you could get None back (which you can so long as you assigned None to
> something else before reassigning it) there can be some practical applications
> to that.

There is no need to assign None to something before assigning to None.

>>> None=1
>>> if None:
...   print "hi"
...
hi
>>> del None
>>> if None:
...   print "hi"
...
>>> del None
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
NameError: None

just-delete-it-and-be-happi-ly y'rs
Peter
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