[Python-3000] None in Comparisons

[Guido van Rossum]

We're not going to add the "feature" back that None compares smaller
than everything. It's a slippery slope that ends with all operations
involving None returning None -- I've seen a proposal made in all
earnestness requesting that None+42 == None, None() == None, and so
on. This Nonesense was wisely rejected; a whole slew of
early-error-catching would have gone out of the window. It's the same
with making None smaller than everything else. For numbers, you can
already use -inf; for other types, you'll have to invent your own
Smallest if you need it.

In short, I'll have None of it.

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)