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Python Python Basics Functions and Looping Functions

Shashank N
Shashank N
655 Points
Posted by Shashank N
Shashank N
655 Points

Why is "a" > "A" true ?

I know they are not equal but how are they compared?

2 Answers

Tsenko Aleksiev
Tsenko Aleksiev
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Tsenko Aleksiev
Tsenko Aleksiev
3,819 Points

I don’t know nothing about python but I assume that acording to the ASCI table ( look it in google ), A and a have different codes and that’s why they are different. Now the one is less than the other because int the same table the one is further than the other :)

Lucas Smith
Lucas Smith
11,616 Points
Lucas Smith
Lucas Smith
11,616 Points

Tsenko is right. When it comes down to whatever source the language is using it has to interpret the character's value from somewhere.

The easiest way that I think about it is binary since that is close to universal.

01000001 = A = 65 01100001 = a = 97

All told there are 32 characters between A and a, and since the lower case is after the upper case, it just has a higher numeric value

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