From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 19:28:09 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: New special case in comparisons: None is smaller than any other object
X-Git-Tag: v2.1a1~25
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0871e9315ec2395775f600baedacdcbcd4cb5f5c;p=python

New special case in comparisons: None is smaller than any other object
(unless the object's type overrides this comparison).
---

diff --git a/Objects/object.c b/Objects/object.c
index b15e76e37c..c1a1303fb0 100644
--- a/Objects/object.c
+++ b/Objects/object.c
@@ -550,6 +550,12 @@ default_3way_compare(PyObject *v, PyObject *w)
 		PyErr_Clear();
 	}
 
+	/* None is smaller than anything */
+	if (v == Py_None)
+		return -1;
+	if (w == Py_None)
+		return 1;
+
 	/* different type: compare type names */
 	if (v->ob_type->tp_as_number)
 		vname = "";