From: Raymond Hettinger <python@rcn.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 20:04:09 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: SF bug #849662.  Dramatically, improve comparison speed for "if shl == None".
X-Git-Tag: v2.4a1~1151
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f477c884509ad5e6a4d2ef583dae9eb1cd6d125d;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

SF bug #849662.  Dramatically, improve comparison speed for "if shl == None".
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diff --git a/Lib/UserDict.py b/Lib/UserDict.py
index 6b5c9dade6ac..35f86fc4dc10 100644
--- a/Lib/UserDict.py
+++ b/Lib/UserDict.py
@@ -155,6 +155,8 @@ class DictMixin:
     def __repr__(self):
         return repr(dict(self.iteritems()))
     def __cmp__(self, other):
+        if other is None:
+            return 1
         if isinstance(other, DictMixin):
             other = dict(other.iteritems())
         return cmp(dict(self.iteritems()), other)