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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2007-08-17 00:24:54 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>2007-08-17 00:24:54 (GMT)
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@@ -987,7 +987,7 @@ Comparison of objects of the same type depends on the type:
* Strings are compared lexicographically using the numeric equivalents (the
result of the built-in function :func:`ord`) of their characters. Unicode and
- 8-bit strings are fully interoperable in this behavior.
+ 8-bit strings are fully interoperable in this behavior. [#]_
* Tuples and lists are compared lexicographically using comparison of
corresponding elements. This means that to compare equal, each element must
@@ -1272,6 +1272,12 @@ groups from right to left).
cases, Python returns the latter result, in order to preserve that
``divmod(x,y)[0] * y + x % y`` be very close to ``x``.
+.. [#] 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,
+ even though they both represent the same unicode character (LATIN
+ CAPTITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA).
+
.. [#] The implementation computes this efficiently, without constructing lists or
sorting.