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diff --git a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst index 28c1406..476c82d 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/expressions.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/expressions.rst @@ -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. |