From: Thomas Jollans on
On 08/03/2010 10:17 PM, wheres pythonmonks 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


Not only was it negative, it was, in fact:

>>> None < float('-Inf')
True