On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 20:32:19 -0400, "Tim Peters" <tim.one@home.com>
wrote:
>I don't know whether that algorithm makes sense, but it's efficient =
enough
>in Python:
>
> biggest =3D max(map(ord, some_unicode_string))
or marginally more efficient still:
biggest =3D ord(max(some_unicode_string))
Toby Dickenson
tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com