On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 1:17 PM, wheres pythonmonks <wherespythonmo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I did the google search... I must be blind as I don't see any hits... > > None is negative in Python? (v2.6) > > http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=%22none+is+negative%22+python > > >>> if None < -9999999.99: print "hi" > > hi > >>> > > >>> if -9999999 > None: print "hi" > > hi > >>> > > Is there a way to have the comparison raise an exception? > > W
Use Python 3. One of the (backwards-incompatible) changes was to have comparisons of incompatible types raise exceptions. The behavior in Python 2 (not just with None, but with other built-in types as well) was to return an arbitrary but consistent result. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
