[Python-Dev] Should None be a keyword?

[Peter Funk]

> >>>>> "KY" == Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org> writes:
> 
>     KY> Related to my last message: should None become a keyword in
>     KY> Py3K?

Barry A. Warsaw schrieb:
> Why?  Just to reserve it?

This is related to the general type checking discussion.  IMO the suggested
    >>> 1 > 0
    True
wouldn't buy us much, as long the following behaviour stays in Py3K:
    >>> a = '2' ; b = 3
    >>> a < b
    0
    >>> a > b
    1
This is irritating to Newcomers (at least from rather short time experience
as member of python-help)!  And this is esspecially irritating, since you 
can't do
    >>> c = a + b
    Traceback (innermost last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
    TypeError: illegal argument type for built-in operation

IMO this difference is far more difficult to catch for newcomers than 
the far more often discussed 5/3 == 1 behaviour.

Have a nice weekend and don't forget to hunt for remaining bugs in 
Fred upcoming 1.5.2p2 docs ;-), Peter.
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