Guido rethinking removal of cmp from sort method

[Ian Kelly]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 5:57 AM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>> You would have to do more than that.
>>
>> For example, "" < "A", but if you "negate" both strings you get "" <
>> "\xBE", not "" > "\xBE".
>
> Strings effectively have an implicit character at the end that's less
> than any other character. Easy fix: Append a character that's greater
> than any other. So "" < "A" becomes "\xFF" > "\xBE\xFF".
>
> Still not going to be particularly efficient.

Not to mention that it still has bugs:

"" < "\0"
"\xff" < "\xff\xff"