I support PEP 326
Andrew Koenig
ark at acm.org
Tue Jan 27 10:54:18 EST 2004
> The issue is that when Min and None are in a sequence that gets sorted,
> you can end up with Minimums and Nones getting interspersed like so:
> [Min, None, Min...]
If Min and None were two different names for the same object, such behavior
would be moot.
However, the following anomalies might then appear:
>>> None
None
>>> Min
None
(after all, if they're the same object, how is the interpreter to know which
print name to use?)
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