None :)

[Michael Hudson]

Hans Kristian Ruud <hans at inenco.no> writes:

> When an element in a sequence s is None,
> max (s) will return None:

All numeric types compare lower than all other types.  So
max([0,1L,2.0,""]) is "", for instance.

http://python.sourceforge.net/devel-docs/ref/comparisons.html

has the juice, including the statement that this behaviour is "likely
to change" in the future.

Cheers,
M.

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  This is the fixed point problem again; since all some implementors
  do is implement the compiler and libraries for compiler writing, the
  language becomes good at writing compilers and not much else!
                                 -- Brian Rogoff, comp.lang.functional