Difference between fetchOwner and fetch when item not found

Wishlist and RFEs
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From the documentation:

fetchOwner(key)
Return the operator which contains the stored key, or None if not found.

whilst

fetch(key, default, search=True, storeDefault=False)
Return an object from the OP storage dictionary. If the item is not found, and a default it supplied, it will be returned instead.

It would be nice if fetch would also return “None” if the item is not found and there is no default supplied.

If this is not possible, maybe the documentation should be amended to state that fetch() throws an error if the item is not found an no default is specified.

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Hi @NiccoG,

the reason .fetch cannot return None if the key is not found is that a stored object could resolve to None. Usually our documentation states if None is returned instead of specifying when an error is thrown.

Hope this helps
cheers
Markus