On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 10:50 PM, Random832 <random...@fastmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 4, 2017, at 22:52, boB Stepp wrote: >> Does the list sort() method (and other sort methods in Python) just go >> by the hex value assigned to each symbol to determine sort order in >> whichever Unicode encoding chart is being implemented? > > By default. You need key=locale.strxfrm to make it do anything more > sophisticated. > > I'm not sure what you mean by "whichever unicode encoding chart". Python > 3 strings are unicode-unicode, not UTF-8.
As I said in my response to Steve just now: I was looking at http://unicode.org/charts/ Because they called them charts, so did I. I'm assuming that despite this organization into charts, each and every character in each chart has its own unique hexadecimal code to designate each character. -- boB _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
