[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Pythoncompile.c, 2.330, 2.331

Tim Delaney tcdelaney at optusnet.com.au
Mon Oct 25 22:59:44 CEST 2004


Guido van Rossum wrote:

> Well, then perhaps code object comparison (and function object
> comparison) ought to work the same as 'is', not try to do something
> clever? This would be ironic since that's what it *used* to do long
> ago, and then I thought it would be "better" if "equivalent" code
> objects compared equal. It seems that there are no real use cases for
> having a code object equivalence test, so we might as well save the
> effort. Right?

+1 (that's of course what I meant by identity comparison). Were there any 
use cases you thought of when you made the change?

Tim Delaney 





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