John Sampson wrote: > I notice that the string method 'lower' seems to convert some strings (input > from a text file) to Unicode but not others. > This messes up sorting if it is used on arguments of 'sorted' since Unicode > strings come before ordinary ones.
I doubt that. Can you provide a short example? > Is there a better way of case-insensitive sorting of strings in a list? Is it > necessary to convert strings read from a plaintext file > to Unicode? If so, how? This is Python 2.7.8. Well, if you have non-ASCII chars for many Unicode characters str.lower() won't give reasonable results. So binary strings containing an encoding of Unicode character entities should be decoded to Unicode strings first. Ciao, Michael. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
