how to compare two strings?

[Remco Gerlich]

Paul Rubin <phr-n2002a at nightsong.com> wrote in comp.lang.python:
> Is there any built-in function in Python for comparing two strings
> alphabetically?  Something suitable for passing as the optional
> comparison function for the list "sort" method.  I could code up
> something like
> 
>   def scmp(a,b):
>     if a<b: return -1
>     if b<a: return 1
>     return 0
> 
> but it's pretty ugly to need to do that.  I've looked in the docs but
> don't see any obvious counterpart to perl's lozenge (<=>) operator.
> Is there one?

Uhm. scmp() is the same as the builtin cmp(), as far as I can see.

Which means that this is the default action of sort(), no need to give it
any function.

-- 
Remco Gerlich