Question about 'None'

[Steven Bethard]

flamesrock wrote:
> The statement (1 > None) is false (or any other value above 0). Why is
> this?

What code are you executing?  I don't get this behavior at all:

py> 100 > None
True
py> 1 > None
True
py> 0 > None
True
py> -1 > None
True
py> -100 > None
True

> (The reason I ask is sortof unrelated. I wanted to use None as a
> variable for which any integer, including negative ones have a greater
> value so that I wouldn't need to implement any tests or initializations
> for a loop that finds the maximum of a polynomial between certain x
> values. Anything is greater than nothing, no?)

Yup, that's the behavior I get with None.

Steve