The comparison methods on Python's str are codepoint-by-codepoint. A neat fact about UTF-8 is that bytewise comparisons on UTF-8 are equivalent to doing codepoint comparisons. But this isn't relevant to Python's str, because Python's str never uses UTF-8.
-n On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Elliot Gorokhovsky <elliot.gorokhov...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> So what's Python doing? Is it a codepoint ordering? > > > ...ya...how is the python interpreter supposed to know what language strings > are in? There is a unique ordering of unicode strings defined by the unicode > standard, AFAIK. > If you want to sort by natural language ordering, see here: > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/natsort > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > Python-ideas@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ -- Nathaniel J. Smith -- https://vorpus.org _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
