[Python-3000] String comparison

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Rauli Ruohonen writes:

 > What I meant is that the stdlib should only have string operations
 > that effectively work on (1) sequences of code units or (2)
 > sequences of code points, and that the choice between these two
 > should be made reasonably.

I think we've reached a dead end.  AIUI, that's a matter for a PEP,
and the window for Python 3 is closed.  I'm pretty sure that Python 3
is going to have sequences of code units only (I know, Guido said
"code points", but I doubt he's read TR#17), except that people will
sneak in some UTF-16 behavior where it seems useful.

Until one or more of the senior developers says otherwise, I'm going
to assume that.