[Python-3000] Comparing to None

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Sat Feb 2 01:44:17 CET 2008


You should have been there when this was decided about two years ago.

I really don't want to be tweaking the language spec continuously
between now and the planned release date in ~August.

On Feb 1, 2008 3:56 PM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
> It was very convenient in Py2.x to have None comparable to other types and always rank less than any other type.
>
> I would like to restore that ability.
>
> One example, it helps with heaps to be able to turn an entry into None and have it sift to the top where the null entries can be popped-off.

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