On 2013-02-15, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > On 2013-02-15 16:17, Neil Cerutti wrote: >> On 2013-02-15, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> if score > best_score or best_score is None: >> >> You need the None check first to avoid an exception from the >> comparison. > > Only in Python 3.
It is a more difficult to find bug in Python 2, which will not even throw an exception, but instead silently do the wrong thing. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
