Why it shows True if I type print('a'>'A')?

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print('a'>'A')

why it shows "True" result what is the logic??

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Charles Duffy · Answer 1 · 2020-05-15T15:08:49.380

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Look up the ordinals for these characters -- the position in the ASCII or Unicode table for each character or code point:

>>> ord('a')
97
>>> ord('A')
65
>>> print('a'>'A')
True

97 is greater than 65. Thus, a comes after A.

See Sort dictionary by key using locale/collation for discussion of how comparison can be done according to locale-specific collation order instead.

edited May 15 '20 at 15:08

answered May 15 '20 at 15:01

Charles Duffy

It's worth noting that that's the [ASCII value](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII) of those particular characters. – EJoshuaS - Stand with Ukraine May 15 '20 at 15:05
Yeah, didn't see the edit on time. In any case, +1 from me because this is the correct answer. – EJoshuaS - Stand with Ukraine May 15 '20 at 15:08

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