How does Python 2 compare string and int? Why do lists compare as greater than numbers, and tuples greater than lists?

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3270...

Question links:
[as seen on ideone.com]: http://ideone.com/1z1r0

Accepted answer links:
[python 2 manual]: http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtype...
[no language specification]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1094...
[language reference]: https://docs.python.org/2/reference/expr...

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