[Python-ideas] Consider having collections.abc.Sequence

[Michael Selik]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 8:55 AM Neil Girdhar <mistersheik at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sure.
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> http://bugs.python.org/issue27802
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> On Friday, August 19, 2016 at 8:36:39 AM UTC-4, Emanuel Barry wrote:
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>> Arek Bulski wrote:
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>> > Could use all(a==b for zip(seq,seq2))
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>> Or even `all(itertools.starmap(operator.eq, zip(a, b)))` if you prefer,
>> but this isn’t about how easy or clever or obfuscated one can write that;
>> it’s about convenience. ABCs expose the lowest common denominator for
>> concrete classes of their kind, and having __eq__ makes sense for Sequence
>> (I’m surprised that it’s not already in).
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>> I think we can skip the Python-ideas thread and go straight to opening an
>> issue and submitting a patch :) Neil, care to do that?
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>>
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>> -Emanuel
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tuples and lists are both Sequences, yet are not equal to each other.

    py> [1] == (1,)
    False
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