Show off your Python chops and compete with others
Roy Smith
roy at panix.com
Thu Nov 7 21:18:58 EST 2013
In article <l5hh32$qf4$1 at dont-email.me>, alex23 <wuwei23 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 8/11/2013 11:54 AM, Roy Smith wrote:
> > Dead code doesn't count.
>
> Neither do shifting goalposts.
It's not a shifting goalpost. My original statement was that:
def foo():
raise Exception
defines a function which 1) has no explicit return statement and 2) does
not return None. I stand by that statement. There is no possible
codepath, no possible calling sequence, no possible execution
environment, which will cause that function to return None. That fact
that one particular Python implementation happens to produce unreachable
bytecode for returning None is meaningless. Would you say that:
def baz():
return None
print "I got here"
is a function which prints "I got here"?
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