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From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
To: Lancelot SIX <lsix@lancelotsix.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use is/is not to check for None in python.
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 12:25:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d86eea98-19e8-d406-96b2-1ed614f89dc3@polymtl.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YL7D+CMN7Jf+UmFQ@vapier>

On 2021-06-07 9:12 p.m., Mike Frysinger via Gdb-patches wrote:
> On 07 Jun 2021 23:50, Lancelot SIX via Gdb-patches wrote:
>> While reviewing a patch sent to the mailing list, I noticed there are few
>> places where python code checks if a variable is 'None' or not by using the
>> comparison operators '==' and '!='.  PEP8[1], which is used as coding standard
>> in GDB coding standards, recommends using 'is' / 'is not' when comparing to a
>> singleton such as 'None'.
> 
> this is correct, so all the changes look fine.  but i wonder if we couldn't
> make many more pythonic by treating them as bools.  for example:

The patch LGTM but I also agree with Mike.  So Lancelot, if you want to
merge it as-is, that's fine.  If you want to update it as suggested by
Mike, that's fine too.

Simon


  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-08 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-07 22:50 Lancelot SIX
2021-06-08  1:12 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-06-08 16:25   ` Simon Marchi [this message]
2021-06-08 23:01     ` Lancelot SIX

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