On 2/17/2014 10:22 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
On 17.02.2014 15:38, Jon Ribbens wrote:
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:43:25PM +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
This doesn't only apply to numeric comparisons. In Python 2 you
can compare None with any kind of object and it always sorts first,
No you can't. See http://bugs.python.org/issue1673405 .
According to Tim Peters, the "None is less than everything" rule
never existed.
Tim is correct. Copying from my other response (posted after you wrote this)
>>> class Bottom(object): # get same results below without 'object'
def __lt__(self, other):
return True
# the following two results are consistent and
# contradict the claim that 'None is smaller than anything'
>>> Bottom() < None
True
>>> cmp(Bottom(), None)
-1
# the following two results are not consistent with the
# definition of cmp, so 1 of the 2 is buggy
>>> None < Bottom()
True
>>> cmp(None, Bottom())
1
Well, then Tim probably didn't read the code in object.c :-)
I did, as I suspect Time has also. Function default_3way_compare is a
'final fallback'. The comment within, besides being a code comment and
not the doc, is wrong unless 'anything' is qualified.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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