Comparison of strings is lexicographically-sensitive

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Day 78 [December 2nd, 2025 started reading around 12am]

I need to buckle down, as I'm still lagging on day day 3 & 4 goals, "Day 3-4: Control structures (if-else, loops)", as well as day 5 (and 6) goals, "Day 5-6: Functions and modules", and Day 7 target (exercises) (Meta AI, personal communication, August 8, 2025). If I haven't covered this, I can't make progress on day 8 - 77 goals.

Goals:
As extracted from the 'Python for Software Development' textbook by Halvorsen (n.d.):

Plotting in Python ✅
Subplots✅
Exercises✅
If ... Else
Arrays
For Loops
Nested
For Loops
While Loops
Exercises
Creating Functions in Python - Introduction
Functions with multiple return values
Exercises
Creating Classes in Python
The init () Function
Exercises
Creating Python Modules
Exercises

Notes:
Python for Data Science, AI & Development Course (IBM) (Santarcangelo, n.d.):
Module 2: Python Programming Fundamentals

Conditions and Branching

The block of code under if statement only run when the if condition is True
Comparison of strings is lexicographically-sensitive (comparison is done one a character by character basis dependent on how the characters are ordered in Unicode or ASCII) (see also Google, 2025a; Google, 2025b). That's why "10"<"7" evaluates to True (the first characters are compared).

Summary:
Comparison of strings is lexicographically-sensitive.

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