On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 5:57 AM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: >> You would have to do more than that. >> >> For example, "" < "A", but if you "negate" both strings you get "" < >> "\xBE", not "" > "\xBE". > > Strings effectively have an implicit character at the end that's less > than any other character. Easy fix: Append a character that's greater > than any other. So "" < "A" becomes "\xFF" > "\xBE\xFF". > > Still not going to be particularly efficient.
Not to mention that it still has bugs: "" < "\0" "\xff" < "\xff\xff" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
