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[dark grotto]

For strings this would be using the ordinal number

[twilit hamlet]

what's that?

[wooden kayak]

!py

ord("a")

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[wooden kayak]

!py

print(ord("a"))

err what was the command for that

[twilit hamlet]

So it's just converted to a number?

in the ascii table?

[high trellis]

!e

print(ord("a"))

[gilded briar]

:white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

97

[wooden kayak]

not ASCII exactly, as this works for any unicode character

but the idea is the same

[twilit hamlet]

!e

print("What?")

[gilded briar]

:white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

What?

[twilit hamlet]

!e

print([i for i in range(200000000)])

[gilded briar]

:warning: Your 3.12 eval job timed out or ran out of memory.

[No output]

[twilit hamlet]

lol

[frigid void]

it's also relevant to know, that < is used for sorting things.
so if you got a list of names, you can sort it, and internally it's using < to compare each item (by default at least)

!e

names = ['sani', 'retopear', 'alice', 'zorro']
names.sort()
print(names)

[gilded briar]

:white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

['alice', 'retopear', 'sani', 'zorro']

[frigid void]

!e though because it's using the ordinal value of the letters, it might mess up the sorting, if you have mixed cases of your letters:

names = ['sani', 'retopear', 'alice', 'Zorro']
names.sort()
print(names)

[gilded briar]

:white_check_mark: Your 3.12 eval job has completed with return code 0.

['Zorro', 'alice', 'retopear', 'sani']

[frigid void]

as all capital letters have a lower ordinal value as their lowercase counterparts

you can fix that by using a key:
names.sort(key=str.casefold)

🙂

[gilded briar]

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