[issue22979] Use of None in min and max

[Simeon Visser]

Simeon Visser added the comment:

This doesn't happen in Python 3 as None can't be compared to other elements:

>>> min([1,2,3,None])
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unorderable types: NoneType() < int()

I can also imagine people now using min with the intended behaviour of "give me the smallest element, or None if it happens to be present".

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