On 05Feb2017 16:31, boB Stepp <robertvst...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 10:50 PM, Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 4, 2017, at 22:52, boB Stepp wrote:
Does the list sort() method (and other sort methods in Python) just go
by the hex value assigned to each symbol to determine sort order in
whichever Unicode encoding chart is being implemented?
By default. You need key=locale.strxfrm to make it do anything more
sophisticated.
I'm not sure what you mean by "whichever unicode encoding chart". Python
3 strings are unicode-unicode, not UTF-8.
As I said in my response to Steve just now: I was looking at
http://unicode.org/charts/ Because they called them charts, so did I.
I'm assuming that despite this organization into charts, each and
every character in each chart has its own unique hexadecimal code to
designate each character.
You might want to drop this term "hexadecimal"; they're just ordinals (plain
old numbers). Though Unicode ordinals are often _written_ in hexadecimal for
compactness and because various character grouping are aligned on ranges based
on power-of-2 multiples. Like ASCII has the upper case latin alphabet at 64
(2^6) and lower case at 96 (2^6 + 2^32). Those values look rounder in base 16:
0x40 and 0x60.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
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