For anyone wondering why you can use bool as 1 and 0 https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Doc/c-api/bool.rst#id3

Booleans in Python are implemented as a subclass of integers.

Nice one! Got something new for me, thx :)

Yes. True is 1

If I'm not mistaken, I think it compares the ascii or unicode number for it. '4' in ascii would be int 52 and '5' would be int 53, '6' is int 54 and so forth so anything below int 53, put a '0' and anything above put a '1'

wowza

I think its pretty readble to me.

intresting it just compiled all the 4-5 lines of code to a one liner (but, i'm being honest here it can be optimised)...
REGARDLESS, GOOD JOB

Great job, I decided as well.

Nice dude I spent so much time on this problem

thanks. my bad.

The input string will only consist of lower case letters and/or spaces.

I think we just got lucky that the test cases didn't cover uppercase vowels.

Unless I am missing something

strings are ordered lexicographically

and if you attempt to compare a string to an int then whichever one of them you ask they'll tell you they don't know which comes first. (operators boil down to method calls on one of the operands. you're asking one of the values if it's smaller than the other)

javascript on the other hand, is a mistake, and will convert mixed values into a single type and then compare for you. all friendly and with a smile on its face. "friendly" here really just means it did something other than what you said, which is a great way to make your code full of difficult to find bugs.

hi natan, could you please explain how the code treats this?

that is not what happens, for example, '9' is not less than '10'

languages shouldn't guess what's meant, they should do what is said