On 20/03/13 13:38, Jan Oelze wrote:
"Strings are compared lexicographically using the numeric equivalents (the result of the built-in function ord()) of their characters. Unicode and 8-bit strings are fully interoperable in this behavior."
This isn't true in python 3: Python 3.2.3 (default, Oct 19 2012, 19:53:57) [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> b'bytes' < 'unicode' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: unorderable types: bytes() < str() Ian F -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
