Comparing lists

[Francesco Bochicchio]

Hi all,

anybody can point me to a description of how the default comparison of
list objects (or other iterables) works?

Apparently l1 <  l2 is equivalent to  all ( x < y  for  x,y in
zip( l1, l2) ), has is shown in the following tests, but I can't find
it described anywhere:

>>> [1,2,3] < [1,3,2]
True
>>> [1,2,3] < [1,2,4]
True
>>> [1,2,3] < [2,2,3]
True
>>> [1,2,3] < [0,1,3]
False
>>> [1,2,3] < [0,2,3]
False
>>> [1,2,3] < [1,1,3]
False
>>> [1,2,3] < [1,2,2]
False


Ciao
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FB