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| author | Mark Summerfield <list@qtrac.plus.com> | 2007-10-03 08:53:21 (GMT) |
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| committer | Mark Summerfield <list@qtrac.plus.com> | 2007-10-03 08:53:21 (GMT) |
| commit | d92e871ad8b71de1a276f94d14b797e2e049ced8 (patch) | |
| tree | 110cc74ed33094a87315350906cd1711e3c1ff09 | |
| parent | be6c7ba72ad2bc3087a7df20871387b11756e140 (diff) | |
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Added note in footnote about string comparisons about
unicodedata.normalize().
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst index 4e95ec3..488f090 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst @@ -1330,9 +1330,10 @@ groups from right to left). .. [#] While comparisons between unicode strings make sense at the byte level, they may be counter-intuitive to users. For example, the - strings ``u"\u00C7"`` and ``u"\u0327\u0043"`` compare differently, + strings ``u"\u00C7"`` and ``u"\u0043\u0327"`` compare differently, even though they both represent the same unicode character (LATIN - CAPTITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA). + CAPTITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA). To compare strings in a human + recognizable way, compare using :func:`unicodedata.normalize`. .. [#] The implementation computes this efficiently, without constructing lists or sorting. |