It's lexigraphic (order by first letter, but if those are the same, compare the second, but if those are same compare the third, ... if one ends while the other continues, it's considered 'lower') on the character's ASCII (binary encoding values):
http://www.asciitable.com/ Note that all the upper case values appear before the lower case values. (And there are some other 'characters' like newline before that but you won't see them) Cheers, Michael On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 1:33 PM, 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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
