From: Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 08:28:33 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Bug #132921:  None treated differently in cmp() / sort() in 2.1a2.
X-Git-Tag: v2.1b1~308
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=144958552974edb92c6d6bfce09eed54d78de045;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Bug #132921:  None treated differently in cmp() / sort() in 2.1a2.
Just mentioning that in the NEWS file.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index cf4e6e36b654..8c04875ac820 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -183,6 +183,13 @@ Core language, builtins, and interpreter
   complex numbers except for equality, I hope that this doesn't break
   too much code.
 
+- The outcome of comparing non-numeric objects of differerent types is
+  not defined by the language, other than that it's arbitrary but
+  consistent (see the Reference Manual).  An implementation detail changed
+  in 2.1a1 such that None now compares less than any other object.  Code
+  relying on this new behavior (like code that relied on the previous
+  behavior) does so at its own risk.
+
 - Functions and methods now support getting and setting arbitrarily
   named attributes (PEP 232).  Functions have a new __dict__
   (a.k.a. func_dict) which hold the function attributes.  Methods get