M.-A. Lemburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> At the very least, in the context of a dictionary >> lookup. > > The point here is that a typical user won't expect any comparisons > to be made when dealing with dictionaries, simply because the fact > that you do need to make comparisons is an implementation detail.
I'd also weight in the fact that this is a change of behaviour since the introduction of unicode in 2.0, and it's break real-world applications (as demonstrated by this thread). I think Python ought to revert to the previous behaviour and, in case there's interest, the discussion moved to the py3k list. Giovanni Bajo _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com