From the docs[0]: "Strings are compared lexicographically using the numeric equivalents (the result of the built-in function ord()) of their characters. Unicode and 8-bit strings are fully interoperable in this behavior."
[0] http://docs.python.org/2/reference/expressions.html#not-in On 20.03.2013, at 14:33, franzferdinand <melo.dumou...@hotmail.com> wrote: >>>> "Monty" < "Python" > True >>>> "Z" < "a" > True >>>> "Monty" < "Montague" > > False > What's the rule about that? Is it the number of letters or what? > thanks > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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