On Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:46:07 +0300, Francesco Bochicchio <bieffe62 at gmail.com> wrote: > anybody can point me to a description of how the default comparison of > list objects (or other iterables) works? Sequences of the same type are compared using lexicographical ordering: http://docs.python.org/tutorial/datastructures.html#comparing-sequences-and-other-types