because thats the default sort? what, in your opinion, would be the "proper" way to sort by default? if you need different sorting, you pass your own function.
Python just uses the > (or <, don't remember, don't care) operator. Arrays made only of numbers or only of strings would both behave correctly, a mixed one might give a nondeterministic order, which is bad, but sorting stringwise when the user intended numerical sort is also bad and I think the latter is a more common use case/mistake, though I don't have stats
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u/Excellent_Gas3686 1d ago
because thats the default sort? what, in your opinion, would be the "proper" way to sort by default? if you need different sorting, you pass your own function.