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Bug #132921: None treated differently in cmp() / sort() in 2.1a2.

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Just mentioning that in the NEWS file.
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@ -183,6 +183,13 @@ Core language, builtins, and interpreter
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