On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Guido van Rossum wrote: > I think we've argued about '' in 'abc' long enough. Tim has failed to > convince me, so '' in 'abc' returns True. Barry has checked it all > in. I would like to urge putting the brakes on this one and proceeding more cautiously. (I've been away for the past couple of days and missed the discussion on this issue.) My personal opinion sides with Tim -- i think an exception is definitely the right choice. (I still haven't seen convincing examples where True is a more useful result than an exception, and the fact that there is doubt suggests that it is an exceptional case.) But regardless of that opinion, we should recognize that causing '' in 'abc' to stop raising an exception is a big change -- a more gentle introduction, with at least some sort of warning, would be better. Silent errors are bad. -- ?!ng
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