On 08/10/12 05:20, Mark Lawrence wrote: [...]
They'll be compared lexicographically, something I'm not inclined to attempt to explain so see here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicographical_order
Please also be careful with your terminology. Note that I've used compared. Ordered is very different, e.g. FIFO is often used for first in, first out.
Actually ordered is perfectly fine in this context. Notice that the page you link to is called lexicographical ORDER. "Compared" is a verb and refers to the act of examining the items in some sense. There are many different comparisons in Python: < > <=
= == != `is` `is not`.
Ordered can mean one of two things: - that the items in question are *capable* of being placed into some order e.g. numbers can be ordered by value; complex numbers cannot; - that the items in question actually *have been* ordered. "Some order" includes: numeric order, date order, lexicographical order, insertion order, even random order! You may be conflating this with the difference between "ordered dict" and "sorted dict", where the order referred to in the first case is insertion order rather than sorted order. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
