On 2/25/2011 3:23 AM, Corey Richardson wrote:
On 02/25/2011 02:53 AM, Edward Martinez wrote:Thanks for the reply. i now understand that python uses either ASCll or Unicode to compare and to do other things
When comparing string (not unicode) Python uses the underlying hardware character representation. This is not always ASCII. On IBM Mainframes it is EBCDIC. The ord values are different, and the order is different.
See http://www.dynamoo.com/technical/ascii-ebcdic.htm -- Bob Gailer 919-636-4239 Chapel Hill NC _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
