The idea of adding None-aware operators to Python has sprung up once again. These would make traversing structures with None values in them easier, by short-circuiting lookups when a None is ...

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Readers who think some or all of that looks more like Perl—or, more pejoratively, like line noise—than Python are not alone. That is probably one of the most common complaints heard after Steve Dower ...