[Zope-dev] case insensitive sorts

[Steve Alexander]

Shane Hathaway wrote:

>
> BTW have you ever tried this?
> 
>   data = [[], (), 0, '', {}]
>   data.sort()
>   print data
> 
> The one thing I wonder is whether the sort order is consistent between
> different versions of Python.  I get:
> 
>   [0, {}, [], '', ()]

This is consistent across Python versions. The sequence types are in 
alphabetical order:

   Dictionary, List, String, Tuple

This is documented somewhere.

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Steve Alexander
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