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February 2, 2021 at 3:29 pm #1663
Lu
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Thanks,

If I follow this correctly then in the case ‘1’<‘a’ the 1 is not an integer type but the unicode character ‘1’

When looking at the character map, ‘!’ would be the smallest of all unicode characters and ‘ﻼ’ will be the largest. Python evaluated it to True

>>> '!'<'ﻼ'
True