Is 0 > None?? (fwd)

[gbreed at cix.compulink.co.uk]

In article <9mvpo606f7 at enews2.newsguy.com>, aleax at aleax.it (Alex Martelli) 
wrote:

> It seems to me that nothing bad is happening (even with the
> debatable choice of 'ascii' as the default encoding, which
> I've restored for the purpose of this test from the latin-1
> I normally use in my sitecustomize.py -- I thought your
> observation might stem from such issues).  I must be
> missing something here.

PythonWin 2.0 (#8, Oct 19 2000, 11:30:05) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32.
Portions Copyright 1994-2000 Mark Hammond (MarkH at ActiveState.com) - see 
'Help/About PythonWin' for further copyright information.
>>> 'ciao'<'ciaó'
1
>>> u'ciaó'<'ciaó'
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in ?
UnicodeError: ASCII decoding error: ordinal not in range(128)
>>> 


                   Graham