What's a standard way to do a no-op in python?

Question

I often find myself writing if / elif / else constructs in python, and I want to include options which can occur, but for which the corresponding action is to do nothing. I

Answer 1

If you need a function that behaves as a nop, try

nop = lambda *a, **k: None
nop()

Sometimes I do stuff like this when I'm making dependencies optional:

try:
    import foo
    bar=foo.bar
    baz=foo.baz
except:
    bar=nop
    baz=nop

# Doesn't break when foo is missing:
bar()
baz()