5.8 比较序列和其它类型 Comparing Sequences and Other Types

Sequence objects may be compared to other objects with the same sequence type. The comparison uses lexicographical ordering: first the first two items are compared, and if they differ this determines the outcome of the comparison; if they are equal, the next two items are compared, and so on, until either sequence is exhausted. If two items to be compared are themselves sequences of the same type, the lexicographical comparison is carried out recursively. If all items of two sequences compare equal, the sequences are considered equal. If one sequence is an initial sub-sequence of the other, the shorter sequence is the smaller (lesser) one. Lexicographical ordering for strings uses the ASCII ordering for individual characters. Some examples of comparisons between sequences with the same types:

序列对象可以与相同类型的其它对象比较。比较操作按 字典序 进行：首先比较前两个元素，如果不同，就决定了比较的结果；如果相同，就比较后两个元素，依此类推，直到所有序列都完成比较。如果两个元素本身就是同样类型的序列，就递归字典序比较。如果两个序列的所有子项都相等，就认为序列相等。如果一个序列是另一个序列的初始子序列，较短的一个序列就小于另一个。字符串的字典序按照单字符的 ASCII 顺序。下面是同类型序列之间比较的一些例子：

(1, 2, 3)              < (1, 2, 4)
[1, 2, 3]              < [1, 2, 4]
'ABC' < 'C' < 'Pascal' < 'Python'
(1, 2, 3, 4)           < (1, 2, 4)
(1, 2)                 < (1, 2, -1)
(1, 2, 3)             == (1.0, 2.0, 3.0)
(1, 2, ('aa', 'ab'))   < (1, 2, ('abc', 'a'), 4)

Note that comparing objects of different types is legal. The outcome is deterministic but arbitrary: the types are ordered by their name. Thus, a list is always smaller than a string, a string is always smaller than a tuple, etc. Mixed numeric types are compared according to their numeric value, so 0 equals 0.0, etc.^5.1

需要注意的是不同类型的对象比较是合法的。输出结果是确定而非任意的：类型按它们的名字排序。因而，一个链表（list）总是小于一个字符串（string），一个字符串（string）总是小于一个元组（tuple）等等。数值类型比较时会统一它们的数据类型，所以0等于0.0，等等。^5.2

5.8 比较序列和其它类型 Comparing Sequences and Other Types

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