Why is None <= 0

[blaine]

On Apr 29, 5:32 am, Duncan Booth <duncan.bo... at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> =?ISO-8859-15?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?= <mar... at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> > (FWIW, in 2.x, x>=4?, it's None < numbers < anything else;
> > numbers are ordered by value, everything else is ordered
> > by type name, then by address, unless comparison functions
> > are implemented).
>
> Quite apart from Jon pointing out that this isn't true for all cases when
> copmparing against None, the other half also isn't true:
>
> >>> class C: pass
> >>> C() < 5
>
> True
>
> That happens at least in Python 2.5.2 on win32. Yet another reason to avoid
> old-style classes.

Sorry - but what are new style classes?