[Tutor] comparing strings

[bob gailer]

On 2/25/2011 3:23 AM, Corey Richardson wrote:
> On 02/25/2011 02:53 AM, Edward Martinez wrote:
>>       Thanks for the reply. i now understand that python uses either
>> ASCll or Unicode to compare and to do other things

When comparing string (not unicode) Python uses the underlying hardware 
character representation. This is not always ASCII. On IBM Mainframes it 
is EBCDIC. The ord values are different, and the order is different.

See http://www.dynamoo.com/technical/ascii-ebcdic.htm


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