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6.4 The pass statement

pass_stmt "pass"

pass is a null operation--when it is executed, nothing happens. It is useful as a placeholder when a statement is required syntactically, but no code needs to be executed, for example:

    def f(arg): pass    # a function that does nothing (yet)
    
    class C: pass       # a class with no methods (yet)