python 2 made a rational, well-considered choice, though I do like the python 3 replacement better. Despite its self-consistency, python 2 ended up causing hard

python 2 made a rational, well-considered choice, though I do like the python 3 replacement better. Despite its self-consistency, python 2 ended up causing hard-to-find errors (mostly when people accidentally compared "0" with 0 though; it mostly wasn't a problem with None). In python 2, cross-type comparisons are strictly ordered. So: >>> None == 0 False >>> None < 0 True >>> None <= 0 True >>> None > 0 False Completely consistent, no special cases, and if you sort() a list containing multiple types, it'll always come out in an unsurprising, consistent order.