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Author loewis
Recipients docs@python, jankratochvil, loewis
Date 2010-10-09.18:17:11
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I find it quite clear. "failure" not only means that no item was found, but also that the operation failed, i.e. raised an exception. In general, a NULL pointer returned from a function that returns PyObject* *always* means that there is an exception. There is no need to repeat that every time.
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2010-10-09 18:17:13loewissetrecipients: + loewis, jankratochvil, docs@python
2010-10-09 18:17:12loewissetmessageid: <1286648232.88.0.827710073832.issue10057@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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