[Python-Dev] PyObject_RichCompareBool identity shortcut

[Greg Ewing]

Nick Coghlan wrote:

> Because this assertion is an assertion about the behaviour of
> comparisons that violates IEEE754, while the assertions I list are all
> assertions about the behaviour of containers that can be made true
> *regardless* of IEEE754 by checking identity explicitly.

Aren't you making something of a circular argument here?
You're saying that non-reflexive comparisons are okay because
they don't interfere with certain critical invariants. But
you're defining those invariants as the ones that don't
happen to conflict with non-reflexive comparisons!

-- 
Greg