[Python-3000] String comparison

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> I think we've reached a dead end.  AIUI, that's a matter for a PEP,
> and the window for Python 3 is closed.  I'm pretty sure that Python 3
> is going to have sequences of code units only (I know, Guido said
> "code points", but I doubt he's read TR#17), except that people will
> sneak in some UTF-16 behavior where it seems useful.
> 
> Until one or more of the senior developers says otherwise, I'm going
> to assume that.

I think it is *very* likely that Python 3 will work that way. There
isn't anything remotely that might look like an implementation of
an alternative.

Regards,
Martin