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Manually patched a few things that didn't get merged in, but should.

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Guido van Rossum 2007-08-17 00:24:54 +00:00
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@ -987,7 +987,7 @@ Comparison of objects of the same type depends on the type:
* Strings are compared lexicographically using the numeric equivalents (the
result of the built-in function :func:`ord`) of their characters. Unicode and
8-bit strings are fully interoperable in this behavior.
8-bit strings are fully interoperable in this behavior. [#]_
* Tuples and lists are compared lexicographically using comparison of
corresponding elements. This means that to compare equal, each element must
@ -1272,6 +1272,12 @@ groups from right to left).
cases, Python returns the latter result, in order to preserve that
``divmod(x,y)[0] * y + x % y`` be very close to ``x``.
.. [#] While comparisons between unicode strings make sense at the byte
level, they may be counter-intuitive to users. For example, the
strings ``u"\u00C7"`` and ``u"\u0327\u0043"`` compare differently,
even though they both represent the same unicode character (LATIN
CAPTITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA).
.. [#] The implementation computes this efficiently, without constructing lists or
sorting.