[Python-3000] String comparison

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Guido van Rossum writes:

 > But I'm not about to change the == operator to apply normalization
 > first. It would affect too much (e.g. hashing).

Yah, that's one reason why Jim Jewett and I lean to normalizing on the
way in for explicitly Unicode data.  But since that's not going to
happen, I guess the thing is to get cracking on that library just in
case there's some help that Python itself could give.