I personally regret that sorting isn't safe, but that ship has sailed. There is practicality benefit in making None compare to everything, just as C and Java do with null pointers -- but it is too late to do by default.
Adding a keyword to sorted might be nice -- but then shouldn't it also be added to other sorts, and maybe max/min? It might just be trading one sort of mess for another. What *can* reasonably be changed is the DB-API. Why not just specify that the DB type objects themselves should handle comparison to None? http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0249/#type-objects-and-constructors -jJ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
