Bug #132921: None treated differently in cmp() / sort() in 2.1a2.
Just mentioning that in the NEWS file.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index cf4e6e3..8c04875 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -183,6 +183,13 @@
complex numbers except for equality, I hope that this doesn't break
too much code.
+- The outcome of comparing non-numeric objects of differerent types is
+ not defined by the language, other than that it's arbitrary but
+ consistent (see the Reference Manual). An implementation detail changed
+ in 2.1a1 such that None now compares less than any other object. Code
+ relying on this new behavior (like code that relied on the previous
+ behavior) does so at its own risk.
+
- Functions and methods now support getting and setting arbitrarily
named attributes (PEP 232). Functions have a new __dict__
(a.k.a. func_dict) which hold the function attributes. Methods get