[Zope-dev] case insensitive sorts

Andy McKay andym@ActiveState.com
Thu, 7 Dec 2000 13:15:27 -0800


 > 3. ZCatalog stores objects in a pre-sorted order. Changing the sort
> order of any object (not just strings) would break *all* existing
> ZCatalog instances that store mixed case strings. (and other
> applications too - the python language reference documents that this
> assmption is safe at least until python3k)

Looking at this and other reasons I won't try to hack ZCatalog. I'll stick
to making lower case string indexes.... Seems the safest all around.