Except the article quite literally say None is an option, except <insert not great reasons>. That wasn't an assumption on my part. If the missing item wasn't e

Except the article quite literally say None is an option, except <insert not great reasons>. That wasn't an assumption on my part. If the missing item wasn't exceptional they would have just said that. - Also if even if it were exceptional, you'd still served extremely well by a Result type. Instead of just guessing where the landmine is sitting the type system can help you. Python explicitly opted out of type hints for exceptions to avoid a Java-style "checked exceptions" world.