While I agree with your code example, that’s actually one of the things I was trying to move away from. I had a ton of code that had all kinds of conditional statements, and I felt that if certain stars aligned I could get rid of them and streamline things.

Giving default argument values for the object is a good way to get this behavior, I just kinda felt like it wasn’t the “OO” way.

But the more and more I think about this (I just deleted a whole paragraph defending my old position), the more I’m starting to think that this might be a better way. Perhaps I have my head to far in the Java world and need to think more pythonically.

Thanks for the posting, I’m gonna go give this a try and see what shakes out.

-Nick

def a(x = None):
if x is None:
print “Found None”
else:
print “x = “, x
# then try
a()
# And contrast to
a(1)

- Paddy