The specialness is indeed mostly because of the strong usage conventions - None is a well-known singleton, with ecosystem-wide expectations on how it should be used. Anyone who wants ...

Although it is a matter of opinion, you can't help but admire the idea of the hash function. It not only solves one of the basic problems of computing - finding something that you have stored ...

The recent discussion of a proposed change to the Python language—the usual fare on the language's Ideas forum—was interesting, somewhat less for the actual feature under discussion than for the other ...