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[Python-Dev] python 3 niggle: None < 1 raises TypeError

Glenn Linderman v+python at g.nevcal.com
Tue Feb 18 23:34:41 CET 2014 
On 2/18/2014 1:27 PM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> The alternative would be adding a new singleton to mean mostly
>> the same thing as None, but having the property of comparing
>> less than all other objects and then recommend its use in the
>> DB-API for Python 3 applications...
>
> Which I think would be a *really bad* idea, because
> there would then no longer be One Obvious Way to
> represent and process null values.
>
> E.g. you would no longer be able to write
> 'value is None' and trust it to work on all kinds
> of null value you're likely to get. 

Of course you couldn't... value is None would never work full Null 
values, only for None, like it should.

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