On 4/29/2012 6:05 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 4/29/2012 3:59 AM, J. Mwebaze wrote:
I am just wondering which specific algorithm does python use to compare
two strings.
'Python' does not use algorithms, implementations do. CPython may check
id and or hash before doing a character-by-char comparison (or perhaps
multiple chars at a time).
I think all the sequence comparisons check for equality of len() before
doing item by item comparison.
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