What's the value of "None" between 2.1.1 and 1.5.2

[Christian Tanzer]

Michael Abbott <michael at rcp.co.uk> wrote:

> >> So why don't comparisons of this type generate an exception?
> > 
> > Because comparisons are used in sorts, for example, and it wasn't
> > considered helpful for sorts of lists of arbitrary datatypes to raise
> > errors. 
> 
> Sigh.  I understand.
> 
> Of course, if you are sorting a list of arbitrary datatypes using random 
> datatypes as the key then you're in a state of sin.

Well, I often use something like

    print sorted (dictionary.items ())

at the interactive prompt and I'd sure hate it if I got an exception
instead of a nicely sorted output. In such a case, I couldn't care
less about the order between keys of different types.

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