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Author nedbat
Recipients Yogesh.Chaudhari, dilettant, ezio.melotti, kushal.das, nedbat, neologix, pitrou, r.david.murray, serhiy.storchaka, trent, vstinner
Date 2013-05-13.20:05:29
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Python's goal is not to emulate the suboptimal parts of other languages.  We have dynamic typing, and so can return None from the same function that returns 1.  And we have compact expressions like `cpu_count() or 1`, so we don't have to make unfortunate compromises.
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2013-05-13 20:05:29nedbatsetrecipients: + nedbat, pitrou, vstinner, trent, ezio.melotti, r.david.murray, neologix, serhiy.storchaka, kushal.das, dilettant, Yogesh.Chaudhari
2013-05-13 20:05:29nedbatsetmessageid: <1368475529.19.0.545562465188.issue17914@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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