[Zope-dev] case insensitive sorts

[Andy McKay]

Hmm im actually not so sure on that. Currently you can do a sort either way,
if you fix it so its only case sensitive we'll end up like Visual Basic :)
Fixing python is a question for the python list and I'd be scared to ask it
there...

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  Andy McKay, Developer.
  ActiveState.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Withers" <chrisw@nipltd.com>
To: "Andy McKay" <andym@activestate.com>
Cc: "Casey Duncan" <cduncan@kaivo.com>; "Andy Dawkins" <andyd@nipltd.com>;
<zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] case insensitive sorts


> Andy McKay wrote:
> >
> > They want information fast and most users expect case insensitive sorts.
Its
> > simpler and easy. I think having the ignore_case option for a -tree
and -in
> > helps Zope by increasing the ease of development and friendliness to the
> > user.
>
> And my point was that this is so universally true that the _pthyon_ sort
> function (which is at fault here) should be fixed :-)
>
> cheers,
>
> Chris
>