[issue47259] string sorting often incorrect

Raymond Hettinger added the comment: I don't think splashing this everywhere else in the docs would be helpful. Tools like list.sort, sorted, min, max, nlargest, nsmallest use whatever sort order is provided by the underlying object whether it be a string, tuple, float, or int. The section

[issue47259] string sorting often incorrect

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[issue47259] string sorting often incorrect

New submission from Pierre Ossman : There is a big gotcha in Python that is easily overlooked and should at the very least be more prominently pointed out in the documentation. Sorting strings will produce results that is very confusing for humans. I happens to work for ASCII, but will general