On 14 February 2014 18:04, Chris Withers <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Am I missing something? How can I get this method down to a sane size?

The easiest way is usually to normalise the attributes to a sensible
numeric value depending on where you want "None" to sort (positive and
negative infinity floating point values often work well in the case of
numeric data, but a custom AlwaysLess or AlwaysGreater type works for
arbitrary data). You can either do that dynamically, or else cache the
normalised values when the attributes are set.

Python 2 used to guess, Python 3 makes developers decide how they want
None to be handled in the context of ordering operations.

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan   |   [email protected]   |   Brisbane, Australia
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