making string comparision in python

Question

I was trying to replicate the strcmp from c in python.I typed the former program and it worked but the latter seems to work as well?please explain the latter one.I only expected

Answer 1

Former one just compares the length of two strings. But latter one try to find which one is bigger. For instance:

A = "abcdef"
B = "b"

len(A) > len(B) will be true But B > A will be true, because "b" > "a" (which is the first letter of A)