[Python-3000] None in Comparisons

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk qrczak at knm.org.pl
Wed Nov 12 22:13:50 CET 2008


2008/11/11 Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz>:

> It would be possible to implement this convention in the
> sort method, without making it a feature of comparisons
> in general.

Until someone wishes to sort a list of some objects by key, where the
keys can be (1, None) compared with (1, 3). This will be confusing
because None compared with 3 would work.

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Marcin Kowalczyk
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