No docs for list comparison

[kjohnson]

BPO	1760423
Nosy	@birkenfeld

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[kjohnson]

AFAICT there is no documentation for the behaviour of <, > or == for sequences. == is perhaps obvious but it would be worth noting that < and > for lists and strings does a lexicographical comparison on the list elements or string characters.

[chaese]

http://docs.python.org/ref/comparisons.html works for me.

[kjohnson]

Yes, that is what I was looking for. It seems a strange place for the information. Could this be cross-referenced from the Library Reference? I never even thought to look for it in the Language Ref. Other list operations are documented in
http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq.html
and this page discusses comparison of library types in general:
http://docs.python.org/lib/comparisons.html

I think it would be worth either repeating or linking to the information from the language ref on either of these pages.

Thanks,
Kent

[mnsummerfield]

I've added a note plus a cross-reference to the comparisons coverage in the language reference.
This won't appear until Python 2.6 though.

[birkenfeld]

Fixed in rev. 56698.