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| References | <4F108050.4030407@stoneleaf.us> |
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| Date | 2012-01-14 06:58 +1100 |
| Subject | Re: NaN, Null, and Sorting |
| From | Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.4726.1326484736.27778.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > So I am strongly leaning towards implementing the comparisons such that Null > objects are less than other objects so they will always sort together. This is a perfectly plausible view, and is the one adopted by SQL (I'm pretty sure the "NULLS FIRST" / "NULLS LAST" clause is standard - you get to choose whether they're less than everything or more than everything). ChrisA
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Re: NaN, Null, and Sorting Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-01-14 06:58 +1100
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