For the record, here's the arbitrary and undocumented (?) order among some main builtin types:
None < 0 == 0.0 < {} < [] < "" < ()
If you're curious, you can check the source code. Look for default_3way_compare in object.c. Basically the rundown for dissimilar types is:
* None is smaller than anything
* Numbers (as defined by PyNumber_Check) are smaller than everything else
* All other types are compared by type name (and by the address of the type object if the type names are the same).
Pretty arbitrary, yeah. ;)
Steve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
