[issue10912] PyObject_RichCompare differs in behaviour from PyObject_RichCompareBool ; difference not noted in documentation

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> added the comment:

For the record, the gory details as to *why* RichCompareBool makes more assumptions as to the meaning of equality than the basic RichCompare function can be found in issue 4296 (I just found that issue myself by looking at Mark's response to the python-list thread).

It may be worth explicitly pointing out that use cases where this assumption is unacceptable would be better served by direct invocation RichCompare function.

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