[Tutor] Beginner's question

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Fri Nov 23 00:49:17 CET 2012


On 23/11/12 08:43, Dave Angel wrote:

> In other words
>       2>  None
>
> will give the same answer each time, for a single run of a script in
> CPython, but it is unspecified what that answer will be, and may vary by
> version as well as implementation.


Correct. The ordering of None has changed at least once in CPython:


[steve at ando ~]$ python2.7 -c "print 2 > None"
True
[steve at ando ~]$ python1.5 -c "print 2 > None"
0


-- 
Steven


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