[Zope-dev] case insensitive sorts

Toby Dickenson tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com
Thu, 07 Dec 2000 16:49:24 +0000


On Thu, 07 Dec 2000 10:54:06 -0500, Shane Hathaway
<shane@digicool.com> wrote:

>The one thing I wonder is whether the sort order is consistent between
>different versions of Python.

I actually have a Collector bug report on exactly this question.
http://classic.zope.org:8080/Collector/1219/view

(Status: pending. and has been for 8 months :-(

In reality, I think it is only a theoretical problem. The current
implementation takes much more care than it is required to by the
language reference. Indeed, extra effort was taken in Python 2.0's
implementation of Unicode.


Toby Dickenson
tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com