Aren't django signals a little like comefrom?

By : rohit

In computer programming, COMEFROM (or COME FROM) is an obscure control flow
structure used in some programming languages, primarily as a joke.

I never liked using signals. Recently I was asked that, and has no answer, but a little thinking led me to this question. Aren't signals a little like COMEFROM. If yes, aren't they as bad as COMEFROM? If you do not know what a COMEFROM is, [wikipedia to the rescue](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM)

Some hypothetical code using COMEFROM, again from wikipedia,

from goto import comefrom, label
comefrom .repeat
name = raw_input('what is your ...

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Fun with none

By : rohit

(If you are in a hurry, here is the fun part.;) A few days ago, I was working with a nullable field, which wasn't behaving as I expected. So I started a shell, and see how nulls compare.

In [1]: None
In [2]: None > 10
Out[2]: False
In [3]: None < 10
Out[3]: True
In [4]: None == None
Out[4]: True

Funny, not as I expected. (Why is None < 10 True. I thought it would be either False or None or cause an Error?) So python is obviously broken, next steps, see the same thing in some other ...

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