[Python-checkins] r58299 - python/trunk/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
mark.summerfield
python-checkins at python.org
Wed Oct 3 10:53:21 CEST 2007
Author: mark.summerfield
Date: Wed Oct 3 10:53:21 2007
New Revision: 58299
Modified:
python/trunk/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
Log:
Added note in footnote about string comparisons about
unicodedata.normalize().
Modified: python/trunk/Doc/reference/expressions.rst
==============================================================================
--- python/trunk/Doc/reference/expressions.rst (original)
+++ python/trunk/Doc/reference/expressions.rst Wed Oct 3 10:53:21 2007
@@ -1330,9 +1330,10 @@
.. [#] 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,
+ strings ``u"\u00C7"`` and ``u"\u0043\u0327"`` compare differently,
even though they both represent the same unicode character (LATIN
- CAPTITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA).
+ CAPTITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA). To compare strings in a human
+ recognizable way, compare using :func:`unicodedata.normalize`.
.. [#] The implementation computes this efficiently, without constructing lists or
sorting.
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