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Author	scoder
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, loewis, scoder
Date	2012-02-23.10:09:21
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Message-id	<1329991762.26.0.227598054623.issue14098@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I wonder if these functions should have an error return value, i.e. return -1 on failure. They'd "never" fail in CPython, but other implementations may want to report failures, in case their internal implementation is more involved. OTOH, documenting that they may fail (even though they won't) means that users will have to deal with errors in potentially tricky situations. Amaury, any comments?

I wonder if these functions should have an error return value, i.e. return -1 on failure. They'd "never" fail in CPython, but other implementations may want to report failures, in case their internal implementation is more involved. OTOH, documenting that they may fail (even though they won't) means that users will have to deal with errors in potentially tricky situations.

Amaury, any comments?

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